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" So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same. "

" It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try. "

" We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. "

" We should not look down on our first ancestors. "

" Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real. "

" I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it. "

" 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. "

" Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books. "

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

" Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? "

" Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. "

" 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 not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.' "

" I have a collective sense of suffering. "

" Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it. "

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

" I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish. "

" We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise. "

" I have such respect for 'Democracy Now!' "