Alice Walker Quotes, Confused Quotes, Greed Quotes

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

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To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.

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

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He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.

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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

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I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

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Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

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I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?

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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

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Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.

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I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.

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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

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I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in this culture. This culture is the noisiest culture ever, ever. I think the damage that it has done to people is in that realm of silencing them. They are overwhelmed by gadgets. They don't know what to think because they're so heavily programmed about what it is that they should want and should think.

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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

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HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.

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Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

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This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.

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