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" Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. "

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" War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet. "

" A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet. "

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

" Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. "

" Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it. "

" People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. "

" I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life. "

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

" I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe. "

" I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population. "

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

" From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work. "

" 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. "

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

" Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence. "

" I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before. "

" If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs. "

" I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again. "

" The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' "

" I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can't do that, once every two months or every four months. "

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

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" 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. "

" I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it? "

" 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. "

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