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Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

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

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If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.

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

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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.

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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.

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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

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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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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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Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.

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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

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If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.

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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

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How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.

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In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

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Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!

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A burnt finger remember the fire.

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Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

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