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

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" My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. "

" In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence. "

" Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. "

" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "

" I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother. "

" 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 live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life. "

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

" My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it. "

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

" It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine. "

" I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. "

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

" Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore. "

" I have a collective sense of suffering. "

" We should not look down on our first ancestors. "

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

" Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. "

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

" If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it. "

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

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" 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? "

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" 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. "