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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
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The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.
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There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
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You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.
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You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.
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You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
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