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" You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal. "

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" I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. "

" Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? "

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" Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52. "

" How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. "

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" I think America has always been polarized. "

" It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are. "

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

" It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care. "

" Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books. "

" So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. "

" Fear is real, but so is love. "

" 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. "

" Horses make a landscape look beautiful. "

" I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life. "

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

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