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" This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy. "

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" For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse. "

" Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence. "

" Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. "

" If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were. "

" I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly. "

" It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try. "

" Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. "

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

" I don't generally read reviews. "

" 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. "

" It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land. "

" My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer. "

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

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" Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. "

" There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. "

" I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book. "

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

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

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

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