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1 " Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof. "
― Alice Walker , Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems
2 " the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat. "
3 " We were not meant to suffer so much and learn nothing. "
4 " Loving humansmeanswriting poems & songsnovels & plays, slogans, chants& protest signsour criticswant to stoneus forwhilewe think ofthemas peopleunder differentcircumstanceswe mightbe ableto help "
5 " though we have all encountered our share of grief and troubles, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat — no small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one. Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is the proof. "
6 " Remember this--say it& knowitis true:Alice loves meAlice loves meand I am not blamed for this....she knows--& keepsthe recordthatthisunspeakableviolationof all of usso briefly humanis happeningto me. "
7 " This roomis very powerful:Buddha, golden,holding down one side;the primordial Great Mother, black,offering herbeadof mitochondriaholding downthe other. "