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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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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

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Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

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Resistance is the secret of joy!

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I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.

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Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

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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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Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.

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

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Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

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She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.

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People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.

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I'm the most stubborn person I know.

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War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

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Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.

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We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.

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People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.

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