In the words of Alice Walker:
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.
You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.
Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.
I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.
it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.
I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.
Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.
War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.
I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.
As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.
Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.
As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.
You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.
A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.
When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.
When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.
The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.
Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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