Alice Walker Quotes, Passion Quotes, New Ventures Quotes

before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!

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Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.

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It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.

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When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it.

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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

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Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.

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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

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Being happy is not the only happiness.

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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

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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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Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

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allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

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I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say.

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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

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I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

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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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My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

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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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