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

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

" 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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" As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine if you've given it your whole heart and soul. "

" You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss. "

" 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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" Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. "

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

" The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. "

" The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print. "

" It's not possible to stop love. "

" I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. "

" I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over. "

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" There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason. "

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" It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. "

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" I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can't do that, once every two months or every four months. "

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" Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. "