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One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.

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America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.

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Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

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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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human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.

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We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.

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Anything we love can be saved.

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I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best way to get them to read, is to read. The best way to get them to do anything is to do it yourself, and they will absolutely copy you. That way, you don't have to worry about what's supposedly age appropriate, a child will pick something up when the child is ready.

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Healing cannot be done by settling a score.

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I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

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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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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

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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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we are the ones we have been waiting for

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I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.

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Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

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The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

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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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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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