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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

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We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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

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HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.

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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in 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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You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

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Howard Zinn helped us desegregate Atlanta. That was moving because he took a lot of abuse for that. He and Staughton Lynd, a fellow professor who was also from the North, stood with us. They were certainly behind us. In fact, they often stood in front of us. This had a huge impact on me. But one of the reasons I was very careful about speaking about the relationship I had with him and Staughton was because, in a racist society, if you acknowledge a deep love for and a deep debt owed to white teachers, they tend to discredit your own parents and your own community.

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Like I said...fine with me.

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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

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

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A burnt finger remember the fire.

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You die - and this is why manmade religions don't work for so many of us. The notion that you're dead and that's the end, and they even try to contain you in coffins. They make them out of steel and stuff. But really, your journey - for all you know - is just beginning. For all I know, what you see now is just a tiny little seed. So, I may blossom into an entire - I don't know - something in the sky. Who knows where we're going?

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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

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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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Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone there who is taking the time to tell you a story that has great meaning to them. They're taking the time to do this because your life could use some help, but they don't want to come over and just give advice. They want to give it to you in a form that becomes inseparable from your whole self. That's what stories do. Stories differ from advice in that, once you get them, they become a fabric of your whole soul. That is why they heal you.

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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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