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- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
- Case
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- Nov 07, 2020
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
- Injustice
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- Nov 07, 2020
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
- Observe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
- Purple
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- Nov 07, 2020
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
- Grandmothers
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
- Attack
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
- Nov 07, 2020
You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the most stubborn person I know.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Sad
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.
- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?
- Malcolm X
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.
- Careful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear is real, but so is love.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if I've ever cared much what others think.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not possible to stop love.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020