"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."
"Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it."
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"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
"Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming."
"Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul."
"To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before."