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"Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law."
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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
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"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."
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"Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents' foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood."
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"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."
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"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."
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"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."
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"An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer."
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"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."
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"My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled."
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"Heaven set couples for babies' birth."
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"There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth."
Beauty
"CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not."
Violence
"I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic."
Travel
"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
Friendship
"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."
Injustice
"I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest."
Being
"My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant."
Family
"To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way."
Love
"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."
People
"I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."
Life
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