Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKERI can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there’s a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.
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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there’s a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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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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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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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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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 know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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