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" The Divine Impulse - it's always safe to follow it. We've got to trust it and go wherever it takes us. Especially women. "

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" Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women in America. "

" You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody. "

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" I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on. "

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" I don't think the arts would have been as meaningful to me if I hadn't grown up in Harlem. "

" The white actresses I have known have been allowed to do 10 times more than I shall ever do. "

" I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along. I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist... anything but a racist. "

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" You're not supposed to go into business with the sole purpose of putting your neighbor out of business. This is not the United States of Corporate America. "

" The nature of racism is that it grinds down the soul of the man more finely than it does the soul of the woman. When you want to conquer a people or subject it, you destroy the male component. "

" You can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are better than others, and you can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are less than others, either. "

" One reason I didn't trust my writing for so long was that I always considered myself a serious dramatic actor. But people would always laugh when I shared my writing with them. It took my husband to help me see that I really am part humorist. "

" I pray with my whole soul that the divide-and-conquerers among us will not triumph over us. We need each other in this world so desperately. "

" There is a place for people 65 and older that no other age group can fit. We have nothing to lose. Some of us have a couple pennies. We can go out now and really be revolutionaries. "

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" It is so calming, marriage. "