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- Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
- The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
- I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out…
- Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and…
- At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a…
- My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves…
- When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
- 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…
- Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.
- I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.
- Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
- I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us,…
- June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once…
- We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.
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