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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

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I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.

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Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

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It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

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My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, "OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep." That's about it.

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My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

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Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

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Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.

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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

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I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

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Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.

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Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.

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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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