Hard Times Require Furious Dancing Quotes

“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
― Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

“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.”
― Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

“Loving humans
means
writing poems & songs
novels & plays, slogans, chants
& protest signs
our critics
want
to stone
us for
while
we think of
them
as people
under different
circumstances
we might
be able
to help”
― Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

“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.”
― Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems

“We were not meant to suffer so much and learn nothing.”
― Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

“This room
is very powerful:
Buddha, golden,
holding down one side;
the primordial
Great Mother, black,
offering her
bead
of mitochondria
holding down
the other.”
― Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

“Remember
this--
say it
& know
it
is true:

Alice loves me
Alice loves me

and I am not blamed for this.

...

she knows--
& keeps
the record
that
this
unspeakable
violation

of all of us
so briefly human

is happening
to me.”
― Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing