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Healing cannot be done by settling a score.

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I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or drinking or partying or whatever - if I couldn't get away from that, I would have a heavy heart.

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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

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It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.

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I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

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During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.

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As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.

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I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

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You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

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I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

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

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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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I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.

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

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Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.

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You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.

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I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.

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Being happy is not the only happiness.

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Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

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