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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. "

" A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet. "

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

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

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

" As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best. "

" 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. "

" I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her. "

" I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother. "

" I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on. "

" 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. "

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

" It is important to remember yourself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52. "

" You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred. "

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

" If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs. "

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

" For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that. "

" Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. "

" There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. "

" You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal. "

" 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. "

" Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books. "

" Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry. "

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

" My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. "