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" Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also. "

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" June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same. "

" Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? "

" I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here. "

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

" You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal. "

" Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything. "

" Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. "

" It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land. "

" Horses make a landscape look beautiful. "

" I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it. "

" 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 was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been. "

" Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere. "

" One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate. "

" What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. "

" 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. "

" People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. "

" We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone. "

" I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors. "

" 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. "

" I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do. "

" I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine. "

" Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. "

" In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. "

" I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. "

" It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine. "

" I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. "

" My interest in creating anything is that it be useful. "

" I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. "

" I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. "