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Fear is real, but so is love.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

Kuda membuat pemandangan tampak indah.

Saya sangat menyesalkan setiap bahaya, atau bahaya yang dirasakan, yang mungkin telah saya lakukan kepada siapapun oleh perilaku saya.

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.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

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

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

Jika Anda ingin memiliki kehidupan yang layak dijalani, sebuah kehidupan yang mengekspresikan perasaan dan emosi, serta kepedulian dan impian Anda yang terdalam, Anda harus berjuang untuk itu.