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" You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss. "

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" We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" It is natural to want to have a future. "

" It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet. "

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

" I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens. "

" One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate. "

" Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything. "

" 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. "

" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "

" To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people. "

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

" Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. "

" I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces. "

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

" I start each book when it's ready and never before. "

" We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise. "

" The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism? "

" One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe. "

" 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. "

" I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her. "

" The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass. "

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

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