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- To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God;…
- Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.
- I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert…
- Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think…
- I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God…
- God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has…
- ...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I…
- Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the…
- 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,…
- Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God…
- We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we…
- You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe…
- He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside…
- All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins…
- Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This…
- But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
- War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
- We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.
- I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear.…
- I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to…
- Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of…
- We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.
- 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…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle