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

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.


Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

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

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

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

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

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

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

Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of sisters?

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

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

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

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