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" The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. "

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" It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they're different. It's very limiting. "

" As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine if you've given it your whole heart and soul. "

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

" I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her. "

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

" 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. "

" I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people. "

" Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. "

" 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. "

" What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore. "

" I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on. "

" I start each book when it's ready and never before. "

" 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. "

" I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered. "

" Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors. "

" Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power. "

" 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. "

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

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

" As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best. "

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

" 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. "

" If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for 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. "

" I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it? "

" It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing. "

" I have a collective sense of suffering. "

" Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry. "

" I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty. "