The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
From Alice Walker
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.
I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
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.
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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