We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For Quotes

“The time of the lone wolf, Capitalism, for instance, is indeed over. It cannot possibly sustain itself without gobbling up the world. That is what we see all around us. Women and children in Bangladesh, India, the Philippines, Haiti, Mexico, China and elsewhere in the world forced into starvation and slavery as they turn out the tennis balls and cheap sneakers for the affluent. Ancient trees leveled to make more housing while housing that could be saved and reused is torn down and communities heartlessly displaced. Mining of the earth for every saleable substance she has. Fouling of the waters that is her blood. Murdering innocents, whether people, animals or plants, in pursuit of oil. The lone wolf is the hungry ghost (in Buddhist thought) that can never get enough; whose mouth may be small but whose stomach is boundless. We cannot afford him.”
― Alice Walker, We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

“each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth.”
― Alice Walker, We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

“Take care how you place your moccasins upon the Earth, step with care, for the faces of the future generations are looking up from the Earth waiting their turn for life.”
― Alice Walker, We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

“be aware that the other children of the world are your responsibility as well. You must learn to see them, to feel them, as yours. Until you do, there is no way you can make your own child feel safe.”
― Alice Walker, We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

“work to make the routine drinking of bottled water a distant nightmare. Water was not meant to be polluted, any more than human blood, which is mostly water, is meant to be contaminated. How dare we bring anyone into the world who must, anywhere on earth, run from rain?”
― Alice Walker, We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

“Although only 7 percent of Americans have passports—a shocking realization since we seem to be everywhere—99 percent of us have television or the Internet.”
― Alice Walker, We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

“We were the kind of friends, instead, who understood that we were forever on the same side: the side of the poor, the economically, spiritually and politically oppressed, “the wretched of the earth.”
― Alice Walker, We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

“It is the best of times because we have entered a period, if we can bring ourselves to pay attention, of great clarity as to cause and effect.”
― Alice Walker, We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

“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.”
― Alice Walker, We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness