"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."
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"God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us."
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"Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock."
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"I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America."
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"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?"
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"My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?"
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"In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light."
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"Being happy is not the only happiness."
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"A burnt finger remember the fire."
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"Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart."
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"Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do."
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"Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have."
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"It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself."
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"To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America."
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"So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time; it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart."
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"before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!"
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"I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder."
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"Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it."
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"I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish."
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"The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior."
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