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" Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. "

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" I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up. "

" You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty. "

" I have such respect for 'Democracy Now!' "

" The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior. "

" My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me. "

" From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work. "

" I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered. "

" So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. "

" I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing. "

" 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. "

" When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb. "

" I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism. "

" I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life. "

" I don't generally read reviews. "

" Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. "

" I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty. "

" I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose. "

" As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening. "

" When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote. "

" As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine if you've given it your whole heart and soul. "

" Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence. "

" As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young. "

" The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism? "

" If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were. "

" Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it. "

" It is important to remember yourself. "

" I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast. "

" Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power. "

" We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid. "