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" It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. "

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" Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. "

" I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. "

" She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. "

" All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. "

" If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. "

" The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it. "

" Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader. "

" Make a difference about something other than yourselves. "

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" Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time. "

" I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it. "

" Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable. "

" For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event. "

" Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. "

" At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. "

" There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. "

" I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. "

" If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression. "

" Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. "

" I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. "

" Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. "

" If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. "

" If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it. "

" In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. "

" You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say? "

" My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children. "

" There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people. "

" No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything. "

" When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. "

" Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it. "

" One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to. "