Alice Walker Quotes, Men Quotes, Thinking Quotes

As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.

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

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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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A burnt finger remember the fire.

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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

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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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That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.

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...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

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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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It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period

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

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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

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We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.

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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

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I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.

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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.

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

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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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It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.

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