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

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" 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. "

" Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power. "

" 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. "

" At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything. "

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

" Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real. "

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

" Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand. "

" I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe. "

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

" 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. "

" I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am. "

" I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered. "

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

" It is natural to want to have a future. "

" My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness. "

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

" I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty. "

" 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. "

" Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. "

" I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly. "

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

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

" I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old. "

" My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. "

" It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land. "