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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

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America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

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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 life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

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There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

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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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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

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Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

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I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.

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I'm the most stubborn person I know.

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As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

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I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.

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Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

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Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

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Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.

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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

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