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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

Tidak ada teman yang menuntut Anda untuk diam, tidak menuntut hak Anda atau berkembang.

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married - we became an interracial couple.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.

Saya mencoba untuk mengajarkan hati saya untuk tidak menginginkan hal-hal yang tidak dapat terjadi.

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

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

It is natural to want to have a future.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.