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

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" I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks. "

" All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it? "

" 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 consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams. "

" 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. "

" The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' "

" I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before. "

" You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss. "

" In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. "

" 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. "

" 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'm the most stubborn person I know. "

" There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason. "