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In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

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The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't agree with God's choice for the colors of the people's skin.

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We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.

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Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.

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We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

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I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

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I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?".

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.

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Sometimes all you need in love is to make each other happy, to make each other laugh. So long as you can still do that ten years down the line then I think you're gold. Never let the laughter slip from your relationship.

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I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

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We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better.

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If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And won't mind the enslavement. The second thing you must do is convince your allies that the person is subhuman so that you have some support. But the third and the unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he, she, is not quite a first class citizen.

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Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

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There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.

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Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.

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I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.

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People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.

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The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.

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I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?' To love someone takes a lot of courage. So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, 'I forbid you from loving this person'?

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