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

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You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

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We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.

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I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.

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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

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It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period

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I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.

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If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.

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Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

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What you hope for, you also fear.

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Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.

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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.

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Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult.

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Abortion is an act of self-defense.

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The more I wonder, the more I love.

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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

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You die - and this is why manmade religions don't work for so many of us. The notion that you're dead and that's the end, and they even try to contain you in coffins. They make them out of steel and stuff. But really, your journey - for all you know - is just beginning. For all I know, what you see now is just a tiny little seed. So, I may blossom into an entire - I don't know - something in the sky. Who knows where we're going?

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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

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