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Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception.

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Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see: or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

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All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

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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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Somewhere in the bible it say Jesus hair was like lamb's wool, I say. Well, say Shug, if he came to any of these churches we talking bout he'd have to have it conked before anybody paid him any attention. The last thing niggers want to think about they God is that his hair kinky.

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Animals of the word exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites or women for men.

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In order to be able to live in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

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Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experien...

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I think it ticks God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind."

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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

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I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.

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Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

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Then die that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee;

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