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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

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

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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

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It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.

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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

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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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I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.

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I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

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Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?

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Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

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She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.

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the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat.

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I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.

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Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.

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You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.

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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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The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.

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HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.

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

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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.

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