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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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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

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You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.

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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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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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The hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen to you. It's not just that you're there standing next to somebody that something bad is likely to happen to. That is a true moment of reckoning with who you really are.

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There is no graceful way to carry hatred.

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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.

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Abortion is an act of self-defense.

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

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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

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I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life; I've come too far to be a pessimist.

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I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

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I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.

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The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.

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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.

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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that. Church just could not hold my spirit.

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