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" Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people. "
Alice Walker
Once
Loved
People
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" Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it. "
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" And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. "
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" I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves. "
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" Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities. "
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" I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly. "
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" It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine. "
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" I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again. "
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" The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior. "
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" America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see. "
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" I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to. "
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" Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. "
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" What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore. "
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" I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. "
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" My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. "
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" Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere. "
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" I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious. "
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" There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. "
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" I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature. "
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" Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. "
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" I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population. "
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