My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKERHow we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.
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I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It’s based, though, on my own life; I’ve come too far to be a pessimist.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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People will say to you, “Oh, you are fearless.” That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It’s a slander, really.
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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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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.
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