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I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.

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

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

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.

Semua gerakan partisan menambah kepenuhan pemahaman kita tentang masyarakat secara keseluruhan. Mereka tidak pernah mengurangi; atau, dalam hal apapun, seseorang tidak boleh mengizinkan mereka untuk melakukannya. Pengalaman menambah pengalaman.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.

I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Menulis menyelamatkan saya dari dosa dan ketidaknyamanan yang dihasilkan oleh kekerasan.

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, and it can do anything.

The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?

I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.

You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine if you've given it your whole heart and soul.

Dalam pencarian kebun ibu saya, saya justru menemukan kebun saya sendiri.

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.

Apakah pelipur lara di mana saja lebih nyaman dari pada di pelukan seorang saudara perempuan.

Tidak ada cara yang anggun untuk membawa kebencian.