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When it is all too much; when the news is so bad meditation itself feels useless, and a single life feels too small a stone to offer on the altar of P...more

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

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

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Even as I hold youI think of you as someone gonefar, far away. Your eyes the colorof pennies in a bowl of dark honeybringing sweet light to someone el...more

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Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

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What that song? I ast. Sound low down dirty to me. Like what the preacher tells you its sin to hear. Not to mention sing.She hum a little more. Someth...more

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You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger love can even hold hatred.

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I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere...more

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

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Naw, I say. Mr ____, can tell you, I don't like it at all. What is it to like? He git up on you, heist your nightgown round your waist, plunge in. Mos...more

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Now. Is this life or not?I be so calm.If she come, I be happy. If she don’t, I be content.And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.

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

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Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.

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Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.

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And I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.