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

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" 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. "

" In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid. "

" My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family. "

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

" It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they're different. It's very limiting. "

" As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young. "

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

" I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too. "

" 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 can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again. "

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

" We should not look down on our first ancestors. "

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

" I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part. "

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" We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it. "

" It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.' "

" I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion. "

" Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence. "

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

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

" I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose. "

" I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast. "

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

" I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to. "

" Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? "

" 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 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. "