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I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

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The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.

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After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?

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I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

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Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

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Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?

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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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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

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Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.

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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.

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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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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

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I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others, often art and artifacts that have been obtained by dubious means. But they also manipulate whatever it is they present to the public; hence, until Judy Chicago, in the 1970s ... few women artists were hung in any major museum. Indian artists? Artifacts only, please. Black artists? Something musical, maybe? And so forth.

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Resistance is the secret of joy!

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The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, "Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Well, fine. But, the land there, the landscape is extraordinary. It's big lakes and beautiful hills and trees.

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Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.

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