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

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" I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered. "

" 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. "

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

" I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly. "

" 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. "

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

" The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. "

" The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. "

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

" I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious. "

" 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. "

" The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism? "

" Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people. "

" I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America. "

" I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. "

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

" I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe. "

" David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X. "

" As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine if you've given it your whole heart and soul. "

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

" How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. "

" The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print. "

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

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