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" You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty. "

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" We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. "

" 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. "

" I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose. "

" Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it. "

" I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America. "

" 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'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really? "

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

" 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. "

" I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.' "

" Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. "

" Horses make a landscape look beautiful. "

" Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere. "

" In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. "

" People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything. "

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

" Fear is real, but so is love. "

" 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. "

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" I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do. "

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

" I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. "