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" We should not look down on our first ancestors. "

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" Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get. "

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" I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here. "

" In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid. "

" My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me. "

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" I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish. "

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" All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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