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" People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location. "

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" 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. "

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" In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence. "

" You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss. "

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" The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. "

" In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. "

" Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement. "

" My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me. "

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" I think America has always been polarized. "

" 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. "

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

" I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you. "

" 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. "

" Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet. "

" 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. "

" If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young. "

" 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. "

" I don't generally read reviews. "

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

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

" I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces. "

" 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 have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am. "

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" I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism. "

" Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. "