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

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

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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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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

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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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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

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

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The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

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As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

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

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I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

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

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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

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

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I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.

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There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

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I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

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I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

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I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.

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I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

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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.

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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

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

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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

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I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.

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This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

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Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

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On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.

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Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

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It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

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I'm the most stubborn person I know.

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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

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