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" I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad. "

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" We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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? "

" You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored. "

" I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. "

" I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here. "

" Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. "

" 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. "

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

" Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors. "

" To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people. "

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

" 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. "

" I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks. "

" 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. "

" People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy. "

" 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. "