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" My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it. "

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" I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. "

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

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" You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about. "

" 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. "

" One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. "

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" I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left. "

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