S.L. Walker Quotes

Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.

People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.

If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.

She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.

I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life; I've come too far to be a pessimist.

You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.

I just really love people a lot. I really love them.

HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.

HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.

I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.

It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

I don’t go where people are. I go where the people aren’t.

Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

A burnt finger remember the fire.

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans.

Being happy is not the only happiness.

Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.

Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second

I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

I'm extemely competitive, so when people start counting me out or trying to categorise me, I sorta get hungry.

Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.

The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action.

Worry is thinking that has turned toxic. It is jarring music that goes round and round and never comes to either climax or conclusion.

I think part of me was born loving you.