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My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

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I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.

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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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Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.

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What you hope for, you also fear.

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All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

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You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.

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Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

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As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.

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...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.

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America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

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But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

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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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Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.

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It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

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