If you don't have the ability ...

If you don\'t have the ability or encouragement to use yourself in a physical way, you could become just another talking head. And talking heads run things. That\'s part of the reason why we\'re in such a sad state as a planet, because it\'s all about thinking, and thinking has led to a lot of aggrandizement - taking over [resources] and figuring out how you can steal and leaving people and the planet in an impoverished state.
If you don't have the ability or encouragement to use yourself in a physical way, you could become just another talking head. And talking heads run things. That's part of the reason why we're in such a sad state as a planet, because it's all about thinking, and thinking has led to a lot of aggrandizement - taking over [resources] and figuring out how you can steal and leaving people and the planet in an impoverished state.
 Alice Walker

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No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
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 Alice Walker
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
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 Alice Walker
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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 Alice Walker
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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 Alice Walker
I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.
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 Alice Walker