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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

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before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!

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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

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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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The artist...is the voice of the people.

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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.

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In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.

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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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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.

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Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.

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I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

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I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.

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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

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Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

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It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible.

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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

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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.

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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

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After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?

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