Quotes About Unity

No one was more liberal than anyone else anywhere anyway. It was only that here, in Willesden, there was just not enough of any one thing to gang up against any other thing and send it running to the cellars while windows were smashed.

We felt we had our place in time. What person on the earth doesn't feel this way?

Liberal? Hosh-kosh nonsense!' No one was more liberal than anyone else anywhere anyway. It was only that here, in Willesden, there was just not enough of any one thing to gang up against any other thing and send it running to the cellars while windows were smashed.

A clear and unified voice. In that context, this business of being biracial, of being half black and half white, is awkward.

Everybody's path crossed with hers at the same moment, as soon as she emerged she was uncontained by space and time, with not one path to cross but all paths—they were all hers, like the Queen in Alice in Wonderland, all ways were her way—and of course millions of people felt as I did.

A superstar takes everybody everywhere. "What

Racial homogeneity is no guarantor of peace, any more than racial heterogeneity is fated to fail.

One strong man and one weak is a colony, Sapper Jones," said Samad.

Everybody's got their tribe. Whose tribe are you in anyway?

It's only recently that I had any idea that how a person felt about libraries—not schools or hospitals, libraries—could even represent an ideological split. I thought a library was one of the few sites where the urge to conserve and the desire to improve—twin poles of our political mind—were easily and naturally united.

I knew there was something not quite right about her rigid notions—black music, white music—that there must be a world somewhere in which the two combined.

What is happening in Africa (& elsewhere) is because the men did not listen to the women & the women did not listen to the women either & because the people did not listen to each other & themselves & because nobody listened to the children & the poets. - Alice Walker

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

Where there is love there is life." —Mahatma Gandhi

In chaos there is order, and in order there lies chaos.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side.

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk

Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!

Where is de house where de mouse is de leader?

Common danger made common friends.

Common danger made common friends. Nothing sought a conquest over the other.

Hurston embodied a more or less harmonious but nevertheless problematic unity of opposites.

De first street lamp in uh colored town. Lift yo' eyes and gaze on it. And when Ah touch de match tuh dat lamp-wick let de light penetrate inside of yuh, and let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.