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Book: We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
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  1. Alice Walker _ We Are the Ones We Have Been

    The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!
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  2. Alice Walker _ We Are the Ones We Have Been

    Race will no longer matter, or sex, or gender, or orientation of any description. How we will survive will be our only concern, and who will be with us.
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  3. Alice Walker _ We Are the Ones We Have Been

    At menopause, a time of extremely high power and shapeshifting, we are told to behave as though nothing is happening. To continue the "game" of life as if we are still girls. We are not girls. And to continue to act as though we are robs the world and the coming generations of our insights.
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  4. Alice Walker _ We Are the Ones We Have Been

    If my mind is crowded with ideas or thoughts or plans or other people's creations there is less room for my own."
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  5. Alice Walker _ We Are the Ones We Have Been

    The colonizing mind invites itself wherever it wishes to intrude; it is a worthwhile practice for the coming millennium to train ourselves away from such a mind.
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  6. Alice Walker _ We Are the Ones We Have Been

    Today Americans, who used to feel welcomed wherever we went, travel abroad with trepidation. We know we are not trusted or liked, that we are even hated, by millions of people around the globe. We must ask ourselves why this is so and do the work of discovering our historical behavior toward the other countries and peoples of the planet. As disturbing as this will be, it is a first step toward a peaceful existence. Not because we can make peace for our country, but because we can make peace without ourselves by changing any harmful behavior or attitudes that contribute to our present predicament. Choose any country on the map that appears to hate America. Listen to what people are shouting at their rallies and read what their banners proclaim in the street. Sit with their anger until you can see America through their eyes... Remember that you, yourself, are America. The U.S. Behave as if you are the entire country and carry yourself with humility and dignity.
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  7. Alice Walker _ We Are the Ones We Have Been

    ...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.
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