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" I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before. "

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" 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. "

" The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' "

" Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real. "

" Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer. "

" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "

" Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it. "

" 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. "

" David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X. "

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

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

" 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. "

" My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness. "

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

" Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it. "

" 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. "

" I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism. "

" 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. "

" 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 prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you. "

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

" Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "