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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

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Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black wo...more

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The absence of models, in literature as in life, to say nothing of painting, is an occupational hazard for the artist, simply because models in art, i...more

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If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for ...more

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Expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.become a strangerTo need of pityOr, if compassion be freelyGiven outTake only enoughStop short of urge to ple...more

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They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

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Long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along.

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Hope to sin only in the service of waking up.

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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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In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, an...more

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I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

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On Stripping Bark from Myself(for Jane, who said trees die from it)Because women are expected to keep silent abouttheir close escapes I will not keep ...more

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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

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Surely the earth can be savedby all the peoplewho insiston love.

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We do it because we care. We care that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his ear. We care that behind a pile of manure in the yard he destroyed his life. We ...more