"I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing."
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"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."
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"It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try."
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"Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense."
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"What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal."
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"There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life."
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"Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof."
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"Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams."
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"As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s."
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"I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to."
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"Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate."
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"God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It."
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"What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans."
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"How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth."
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"We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing."
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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back."
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"I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing."
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"Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me"
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"it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure."
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"You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed. That is correct, Señor. It is as if ideas are made of blocks. Rigid and hard. And stories are made of a gauze that is elastic. You can almost see through it, so what is beyond is tantalizing. You can't quite make it out; and because the imagination is always moving forward, you yourself are constantly stretching. Stories are the way spirit is exercised."
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