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

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Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.

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When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

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Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.

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In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

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

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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

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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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What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.

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As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

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

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People are called 'stars' not only because they shine... because the qualities they exemplify are... eternal. We are attracted to their sparkle, their warmth, their light, but they will be forever distant from us. So distant we can never quite believe our inseparability. Never quite believe that we are also composed of the light they have.

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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

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We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.

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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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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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it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

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