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

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" 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. "

" I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it. "

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

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" 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. "

" It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try. "

" So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. "

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