My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, "OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep." That's about it.

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

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Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

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There is no graceful way to carry hatred.

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

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To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.

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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.

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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

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

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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.

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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

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People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

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

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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.

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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

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