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" I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves. "

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" 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. "

" Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. "

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

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

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

" I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything. "

" If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it. "

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

" 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. "

" You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about. "

" 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? "

" Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. "

" People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location. "