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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 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. "

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

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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. "

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

" Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry. "

" I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored. "

" For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse. "

" 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 see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left. "

" Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. "

" On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it. "

" 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. "

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

" People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks. "

" As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best. "

" Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? "

" I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here. "

" I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks. "

" I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too. "