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Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.
I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious.
There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.
Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.
There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.
If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.
I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious
I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory
I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.
You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.
Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.
We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.
I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.
Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.
As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.
You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.
It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.
The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.
My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.
Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?
Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.
This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.
Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.
My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.
My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.