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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. "

" I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism? "

" I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks. "

" I'm the most stubborn person I know. "

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

" We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone. "

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

" America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see. "

" 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 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 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. "

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

" The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. "

" 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. "

" I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I never talk about my next project. "