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

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" Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. "

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" It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are. "

" 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. "

" June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same. "

" I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything. "

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

" My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family. "

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

" Fear is real, but so is love. "

" Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams. "

" 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. "

" Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories. "

" I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part. "

African-American

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

" Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52. "

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

" I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it. "

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

" 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. "

" A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "