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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. "

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

" It's not possible to stop love. "

" I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book. "

" I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. "

" I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have. "

" 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. "

" This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy. "

" We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal. "

" I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored. "

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

" Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature. "

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

" 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 have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. "

" 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 just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" Fear is real, but so is love. "

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

" Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet. "

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

" When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote. "

" People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't. "

" 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. "

" I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it. "