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" Horses make a landscape look beautiful. "

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" People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't. "

" I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks. "

" My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. "

" I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing. "

" I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. "

" 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. "

" I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves. "

" I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything. "

" Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer. "

" Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement. "

" I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious. "

" Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. "

" I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. "

" It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they're different. It's very limiting. "

" Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. "

" I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you. "

" I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame. "

" There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation. "

" For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended. "

" Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. "

" I start each book when it's ready and never before. "

" We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal. "

" I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again. "

" I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her. "

" I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly. "

" The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. "

" Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people. "

" It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care. "

" Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet. "

" I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part. "

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