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" I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old. "

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" You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul. "

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

" I'm the most stubborn person I know. "

" As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening. "

" Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence. "

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

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

" It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom. "

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

" 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 think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder. "

" 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. "

" Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. "

" People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything. "

" If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it. "

" Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities. "

" 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 met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over. "

" 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. "

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

" I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth. "

" 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. "

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" 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 live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life. "

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" How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed? "

" 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. "

" As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young. "