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Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

Book by Alice Walker · 2 quotes · Poetry, Poem, Hope

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“Even on those days the news is fully bad. And all you can do is get out of bed and failing that give thanks you have a bed not to get out of. What does it take to make us smile when we feel the sword of anger and hatred sharp against the backs of our peaceful necks? What does it take to make us stand together as if we just grew that way? What does it take to know the day of peace and justice will one day come? No matter who is so badly directing traffic? What does it take to feel a joy so strong you can almost levitate? All it takes, really, is presence, knowing that you, and those who feel as you do, ignoring roadblocks will arrive. Will brave the flights, the slights, the nights of wondering if and why: the years of pain sometimes required to know where it is most essential to appear.”

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“My friend says to me: But what can we do? Already giving up. To be aware is already something, I say. Consciousness rarely leaves us unmoved. Or unmoving. And so it is with this revelation of what has been happening to our children, all of them, and especially to our boys. The beast in so-called civilized man is more lethal, sinister, grotesque and cunning than I would have believed: And what is it, anyhow, this beast? How does it manifest in every age to plague our republic from shadows it projects as light?”

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