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

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" I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am. "

" 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. "

" Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. "

" Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. "

" You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about. "

" My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens. "

" It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try. "

" The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. "

" I think America has always been polarized. "

" Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. "

" I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really? "

" All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience. "

" I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too. "

" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "

" I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to. "

" My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it. "

" My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean? "

" Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. "

" Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real. "

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

" America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see. "

" I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature. "

" Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. "

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

" 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. "