"Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak."

-- Nikki Giovanni

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“My mother has rheumatoid arthritis. I don't want to lose the ability to jump up and walk across the room or move around with the energy I'm used to having. That's far more important to me than a wrinkle or two”
“Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.”
“There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.”
“Language is the soulâ€™s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.”
“Naturally and logically, people who forage rather than herd domestic beasts and tend crops for a living - that is, people who depend utterly on wild as opposed to agriculture nature for their welfare - inevitably come to view themselves as merely an element of it all, one member of an egalitarian community, alternately eating and being eaten.”
“What is a secret wish?" "It is what you want but cannot ask.”
“It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.”
“I achieved everything one can achieve as a concert singer. Six Echo Klassik awards and three Grammys, and I also have my professorship at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. Now I'm going to turn to other things, like readings or audiobooks.”

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