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

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" In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid. "

" I have such respect for 'Democracy Now!' "

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

" I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast. "

" Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people. "

" I'm the most stubborn person I know. "

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

" Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories. "

" I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose. "

" As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young. "

" 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. "

" What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. "

" Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Fear is real, but so is love. "

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

" 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'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. "

" 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. "

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

" I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature. "

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

" 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 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 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. "