Alice Walker Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Teaching Quotes

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

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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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I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.

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How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.

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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.

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

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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.

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Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.

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So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time; it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart.

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... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

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human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.

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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

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Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, "Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?"

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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

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I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

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God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.

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People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

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Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

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