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I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.

Tidak ada seorang sahabatpun yang menginginkan anda diam dan menghambat anda untuk berkembang.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

I start each book when it's ready and never before.

Anda tidak selalu harus melakukan sesuatu. Anda hanya perlu bisa, dan itu sudah banyak.

Kami bernyanyi dan menari, membuat wajah dan memberi karangan bunga, mencoba untuk dicintai. Anda pernah memperhatikan bahwa pohon melakukan segalanya untuk menarik perhatian kita, kecuali berjalan?

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

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

It's not possible to stop love.

I think America has always been polarized.

Hidup itu lebih baik daripada mati, aku yakin itu, karena setidaknya hidup itu tidak membosankan dan ada buah persik segar yang lezat.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.

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.

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.