"There is no graceful way to carry hatred."

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Source : Alice Walker (2013). “Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems”, p.12, New World Library

Alice Walker

#Hatred Quotes #Way Quotes

“True revolution comes not when we learn to ignore our fat and pretend we're no different, but when we learn to use it to our advantage, when we learn to deconstruct all the myths that propagate fat-hate.”
“Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.”
“We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.”
“Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.”
“I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman it amazes me still.”
“The interesting thing was we never talked about pottery. Bernard [Leach] talked about social issues; he talked about the world political situation, he talked about the economy, he talked about all kinds of things.”
“If there were no belief in god, if such a truth were ever realized, then their would be no fear of consequence. Stop for a moment and imagine what this world would be like without consequence and fear. Imagine what we could, what we would do. I dare not think of such a nightmare for it could only be born in pain.”
“Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.”

Source : Grace Abbott, Judith Sealander (2015). “The Grace Abbott Reader”, p.92, U of Nebraska Press

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