...there is no resistance to ...

...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.
...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.
 Alice Walker

Quotes from the same author

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