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

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" In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence. "

" 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? "

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

" I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve. "

" 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. "

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

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" I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything. "

" My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness. "

" The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. "

" 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. "

" For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended. "

" All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. "

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

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

" I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" My interest in creating anything is that it be useful. "

" I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother. "

" Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. "

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

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