All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
Alice WalkerTags: alice-walker
Whoever he is, he is not worth all this.
And I will never
unclench my teeth long enough
to tell him so.
Because whatever has happened to humanity, whatever is currently happening to humanity, it is happening to all of us. 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. My illness proved that. As well as my understanding that Generose's lost daughter belongs to all of us. It is up to all of us to find her; it is up to us to do our best to make her whole again. There is only one daughter, one father, one mother, one son, one aunt or uncle, one dog, one cat, donkey, monkey, or goat in the universe, after all: the one right in front of you.
Alice WalkerSome periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or person who explained it to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening . . . Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.
Alice WalkerTags: pain change spirituality growth depression personality
As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my folks.
Alice WalkerI think of the meaning of the word "testimony." Originally it named the custom of two men holding each other's testicles in a gesture of trust, later to metamorphose into the handshake.
Alice WalkerMy fantasy life. Without it I'm afraid to exist.
Alice WalkerIf you lie to yourself about your own pain, you will be killed by those who will claim you enjoyed it.
Alice WalkerIt is as if my self is hiding behind an iron door.
Alice WalkerI have the uncanny feeling that, just at the end of my life, I am beginning to reinhabit completely the body I long ago left.
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