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" Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. "

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" I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on. "

" At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost. "

" Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it. "

" Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. "

" No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. "

" I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast. "

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

" 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. "

" If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs. "

" Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature. "

" 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. "

" I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before. "

" As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine if you've given it your whole heart and soul. "

" I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism. "

" My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. "

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

" We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it. "

" I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you. "

" David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X. "

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

" I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. "

" 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? "

" June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same. "

" Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. "