Alice Walker Quotes, Believe Quotes, Fall Quotes

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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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

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The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

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Like I said...fine with me.

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To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.

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I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.

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Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself

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I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

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I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

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I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.

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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

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It is natural to want to have a future.

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Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug

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I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

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Like I said...fine with me.

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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

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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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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

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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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