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

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" I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you. "

" It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they're different. It's very limiting. "

" We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid. "

" I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over. "

" I don't generally read reviews. "

" My interest in creating anything is that it be useful. "

" Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors. "

" David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X. "

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

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

" 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. "

" One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe. "

" Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere. "

" I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to. "

" Horses make a landscape look beautiful. "

" 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. "

" 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 started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book. "

" Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? "

" 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. "

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

" When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb. "

" Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. "

" It's not possible to stop love. "

" Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women. "

" I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it. "