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You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.
I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.
I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.
I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.
You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.
I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.
Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.
I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.
I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.
Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.
I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
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.
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.
Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.
I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].
I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?
HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.
Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.
From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.
You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
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
You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.
I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.
I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.
We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.
it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.
Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.
It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.
I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.
Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.
Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.
In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.
I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
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.