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A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself.

As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my folks.

Let 'im hear me, I say. If he ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you.

I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

What is
a promise
if
not
your
hand
in mine?

My heart must be young and fresh though, it feel like it blooming blood.

I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

Do not
be
like
cows
grazing
watching
the
butcher.

You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what.

Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Healing begins where the wound was made.

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.

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

In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

Abortion is an act of self-defense.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Peace: the fruit of justice done especially to the Self.

His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64

Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

Fear is real, but so is love.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world ...

Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

There's something in all of us that wants a medal for what we have done. That wants to be appreciated.

Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.

HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

It is important to remember yourself.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

I start each book when it's ready and never before.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

Only the sky above us do we hold in common.

From paradise to paradise I go sweeping; collecting rocks & views; owning nothing but what I feel.

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

Her senior thesis was based on the notion that no one should be allowed to own more land than could be worked in a day, by hand.

My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?

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.

Allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her.

She did not see why anyone should worry about her soul, even the people she marched with. "When it gives me trouble," she'd sneer, "I'll call y'all.

- Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me.-

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

I don't know who tried to teach him what to do in the bedroom, but it must have been a furniture salesman.

How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

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

Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you.

June a good time to go off into the world

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Every stitch i sew will be a kiss.

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

The Lord don't like ugly, she say. And he ain't stuck on pretty.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.

Can't you see I'm already half dead.

We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to hand

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

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

Choose
someone
to love
who
wouldn't even
hear
of it.

He never says anything off the top of his head

There was a saying among the Mundo: It takes only one lie to unravel the world.

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

As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

Dear God ... I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.

I have such respect for 'Democracy Now!'

Her eyes serious tho. Sad some.

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

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

Why do tired people sing?

Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail.

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

That was the beginning of her abstraction.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.