"I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious"
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"It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet."
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"I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us."
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"Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise."
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"Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence."
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"Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us."
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"We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier."
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"Creation is a sustained period of bliss."
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"Howard Zinn helped us desegregate Atlanta. That was moving because he took a lot of abuse for that. He and Staughton Lynd, a fellow professor who was also from the North, stood with us. They were certainly behind us. In fact, they often stood in front of us. This had a huge impact on me. But one of the reasons I was very careful about speaking about the relationship I had with him and Staughton was because, in a racist society, if you acknowledge a deep love for and a deep debt owed to white teachers, they tend to discredit your own parents and your own community."
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"People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really."
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"I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated."
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"I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion."
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"Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't."
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"My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker."
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"Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat."
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"Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, "Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?""
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"Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion."
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"I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here."
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"Abortion is an act of self-defense."
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"After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?"
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