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" I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it? "

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" I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered. "

" 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. "

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

" Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also. "

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

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" My interest in creating anything is that it be useful. "

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

" 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. "

" Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get. "

" I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people. "

" I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book. "

" 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. "

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

" It is important to remember yourself. "

" The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' "

" 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 have such respect for 'Democracy Now!' "

" The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism? "

" I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am. "

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

" As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening. "

" At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost. "

" Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? "

" The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. "

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

" Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. "

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

" 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. "