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

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" The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. "

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

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

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

" I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. "

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

" 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. "

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

" My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me. "

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

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" I have a collective sense of suffering. "

" People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't. "

" Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. "

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

" The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass. "

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

" I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. "

" I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve. "

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

" I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism. "

" We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid. "

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

" We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal. "

" A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone. "

" When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote. "

" I don't know if I've ever cared much what others think. "

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