Sunday, May 12, 2013 at 11:25AM
Drew Wolfe

Alice Walker

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.

He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation I have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain.

Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?

The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.


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