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" Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion. "

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" I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it. "

" In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. "

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" Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence. "

" It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try. "

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" 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. "

" I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast. "

" Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people. "

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

" 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. "

" You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul. "

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" I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine. "

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