"That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty."
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"I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest."
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"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
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"The courts cannot garnish a fathers salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat."
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"Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations."
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"I care because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute dependency upon you, whoever you are, for the outcome of my social, my democratic experience."
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"As I think about anyone or anything -- whether history or literature or my father or political organizations or a poem or a film -- as I seek to evaluate the potentiality, the life-supportive commitment and possibilities of anyone or any thing, the decisive question is always where is the love?"
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"If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of our hearts, then who among us shall be free?"
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"The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress."
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"I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic."
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"My heart is not peripheral to me."
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"We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that is our black experience. We should absolutely resist the superstar, one at a time mentality that threatens the varied and resilient, flexible wealth of our Black future."
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"The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else."
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"We survive our love because we go on loving."
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"I believe that love is the single, true prosperity of any moment."
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"I am the history of the rejection of who I am"
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"The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet"
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"Reproductive choice is not some trendy item to toss or keep around the house. If you cannot get an education or a job, if you cannot choose what will or will not happen with your own body, then what freedom do you have?"
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"What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?"
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"It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me."
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