"You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it."

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Source : "Revolution as a New Beginning: an Interview with Grace Lee Boggs". Interview with Adrian Harewood and Tom Keefer, uppingtheanti.org. July 22, 2003.

Grace Lee Boggs

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“Basic US economics tells us that back-of-the-house workers are very unlikely to get more pay overall. The fact that workers are in those jobs means employers are already paying them what they need to pay them to get them in the current environment. If employers do share some tips with them, it will likely be offset by a reduction in their base pay.”
“As much as it's sometimes hard to make choices about where you invest, it's equally hard to make choices about where you don't invest and what you eliminate.”
“If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.”
“People soften by the forced reflection that comes with loss.”
“Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.”
“The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flowâ€¦”
“Shonin: I have composed a poem. Kokushi: Let's hear it. Shonin: When I chant, Both Buddha and self Cease to exist. There is only the voice that says, Namu Amida Butsu. Kokushi: Something's wrong with the last couple of lines, don't you think? (after a lapse of time) Shonin: This is how I've written it: When I chant, Both Buddha and self Cease to exist. Namu Amida Butsu. Kokushi: There! You got it!”
“I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.”

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