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" Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement. "
Alice Walker
Act
Choosing
Women
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" 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. "
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" Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. "
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" America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see. "
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" Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere. "
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" Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. "
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" 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. "
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" I have such respect for 'Democracy Now!' "
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" It is natural to want to have a future. "
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" 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. "
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" Fear is real, but so is love. "
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" 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. "
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" I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to. "
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" It is important to remember yourself. "
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" Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. "
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Because
Become
" 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. "
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Will
Fall
Free
" I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth. "
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Place
People
" 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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Speak
Deserve
Responsibility
" I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame. "
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Long
" 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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Right
I Am
Wrong
" I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up. "
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Beautiful
Wake Up
Love
" In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. "
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Weird
Beautiful
Trees
" Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. "
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Comforting
More
" I never talk about my next project. "
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About
" What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore. "
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" I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you. "
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" My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. "
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Father
Me
" I think America has always been polarized. "
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" 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. "
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Nature
Walking
" I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. "
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" Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. "
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