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" Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere. "

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" People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't. "

" How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed? "

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

" I don't know if I've ever cared much what others think. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. "

" 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. "

" I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature. "

" 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. "

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" For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that. "

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" You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about. "

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

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

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" Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. "

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" Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get. "

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" Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? "