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

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

" Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. "

" Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. "

" To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people. "

" 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. "

" The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. "

" 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. "

" Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft. "

" How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed? "

" 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. "

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

" I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks. "

" 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 life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean? "

" 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. "

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

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

" The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. "

" We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal. "

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

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

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

" David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X. "

" So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. "

" There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation. "

" It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. "

" I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces. "

" I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad. "

" The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior. "

" I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people. "