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" Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52. "

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

" 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 made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered. "

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

" I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose. "

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

" Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. "

" As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine if you've given it your whole heart and soul. "

" 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. "

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

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

" In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid. "

" You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul. "

" 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. "

" When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote. "

" Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe. "

" 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. "

" Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry. "

" Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer. "

" Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. "