Alice Walker Quotes, Animal Quotes, Use Quotes

Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.

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It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.

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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

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Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

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Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

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You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no end. The ending is a beginning. If you feel like that, then you accept that wherever you have to stop on this journey, you continue in some other form somewhere else.

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I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.

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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.

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I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.

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Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.

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For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

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Healing cannot be done by settling a score.

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If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

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If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.

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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

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You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.

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I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

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