Alice Walker Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Differences Quotes

It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.

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This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.

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Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

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I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

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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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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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In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

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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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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

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

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

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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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Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

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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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War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

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War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

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Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

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In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.

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But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

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