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" My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family. "

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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. "

" I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion. "

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

" As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening. "

" No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. "

" I think America has always been polarized. "

" Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature. "

" I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored. "

" Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also. "

" At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything. "

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

" You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal. "

" Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. "

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

" All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience. "

" 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. "

" What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. "

" Horses make a landscape look beautiful. "

" My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. "

" On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it. "

" I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens. "

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

" For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended. "

" You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors. "

" 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? "

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