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

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" All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. "

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" I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves. "

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" Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything. "

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" For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it. "

" I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything. "

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

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" I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. "

" I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America. "

" 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. "

" Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. "

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

" I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too. "

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

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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. "

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" I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. "