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" Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? "

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

" 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. "

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

" You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening. "

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" Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion. "

" The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print. "

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

" 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. "

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" People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. "

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