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Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems QUOTES

Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems QUOTES

1 " Surely the earth can be saved
by all the people
who insist
on love. "

― Alice Walker , Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems

2 " If this were a courageous country,
it would ask Gloria to lead it
since she is sane and funny and beautiful and smart
and the National Leaders we've always had
are not.
When I listen to her talk about women's rights
children's rights
men's rights
I think of the long line of Americans
who should have been president, but weren't.
Imagine Crazy Horse as president. Sojourner Truth.
John Brown. Harriet Tubman. Black Elk or Geronimo.
Imagine President Martin Luther King confronting
the youthful "Oppie" Oppenheimer. Imagine President
Malcolm X going after the Klan. Imagine President Stevie
Wonder dealing with the "Truly Needy."
Imagine President Shirley Chisholm, Ron Dellums, or
Sweet Honey in the Rock
dealing with Anything.
It is imagining to make us weep with frustration,
as we languish under real estate dealers, killers,
and bad actors. "

― Alice Walker , Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems

3 " We do not admire their president.
We know why the White House is white.
We do not find their children irresistible;
We do not agree they should inherit the earth. "

― Alice Walker , Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems