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" The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' "

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" I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly. "

" I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old. "

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

" 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. "

" You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred. "

" I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it. "

" 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. "

" I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again. "

" I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been. "

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

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

" Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. "

" There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. "

" Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet. "

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

" 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.' "

" The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks. "

" It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine. "

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

" From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work. "

" I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do. "

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

" I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. "

" I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves. "

" To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people. "