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

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" We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise. "

" 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. "

" Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement. "

" I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth. "

" I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing. "

" This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy. "

" 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. "

" It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are. "

" In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid. "

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

" I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know. "

" The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' "

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

" At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost. "

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

" The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. "

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

" Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. "

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

" Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. "

" I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really? "

" Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet. "

" I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels. "

" I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly. "

" It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care. "

" Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. "

" I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population. "

" If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs. "

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

" My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. "