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

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" 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. "

" So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. "

" The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty. "

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

" Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. "

" We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise. "

" Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. "

" I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women. "

" 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. "

" Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft. "

" 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. "

" Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. "

" 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. "

" I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing. "

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

" War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet. "

" It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population. "

" I think America has always been polarized. "