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" I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe. "

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" We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid. "

" I never talk about my next project. "

" 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. "

" I don't generally read reviews. "

" And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. "

" 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 cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. "

" 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. "

" Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet. "

" Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. "

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

" I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left. "

" America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see. "

" I have a collective sense of suffering. "

" How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed? "

" I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise. "

" One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe. "

" If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were. "