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I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

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The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.

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No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

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In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer.

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HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.

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You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.

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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.

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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

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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.

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'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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Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.

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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

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What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

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Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.

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

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What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.

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

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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.

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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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I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.

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