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I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Tidak ada yang pernah meyakinkan saya bahwa ras itu nyata.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Ada ribuan orang Palestina di penjara hampir tanpa alasan.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Adalah wajar jika ingin memiliki masa depan.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

I don't generally read reviews.

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

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.

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.