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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

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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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A grown child is a dangerous thing.

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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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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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I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

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Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.

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I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

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Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock.

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... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.

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There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.

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Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.

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Like I said...fine with me.

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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

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I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

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I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

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Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself

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