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" I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can't do that, once every two months or every four months. "

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" At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost. "

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

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" And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. "

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

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

" I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe. "

" I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad. "

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

" The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. "

" I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe. "

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

" To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people. "

" A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone. "

" Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? "

" 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. "

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

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

" I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left. "

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

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

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" One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe. "

" We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. "

" People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location. "

" 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. "

" Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories. "

" Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. "