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"I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say."
"I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe."
"Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government."
"Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams."
"I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes."
"I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here."
"Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power."
"I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do."
"The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account."
"Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me."
"She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it."
"Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited."
"Healing cannot be done by settling a score."
"A grown child is a dangerous thing."
"What you hope for, you also fear."
"My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them."
"As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young."
"I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable."
"I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet."
"Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us."