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" 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. "

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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. "

" Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. "

" In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence. "

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

" Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. "

" I don't generally read reviews. "

" 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. "

" Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power. "

" For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended. "

" War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet. "

" Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. "

" I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. "

" It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. "

" I don't know if I've ever cared much what others think. "

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

" Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand. "

" I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens. "

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

" It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing. "

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

" I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels. "

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

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

" When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb. "

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

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

" The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior. "

" 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 think America has always been polarized. "