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02161aam a2200349 i 4500 001 27DF48B6A1D311ECAF119D2821ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220312010119 008 211103t20212006||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1595582169 020 $a 9781595582164 020 $a 1620976730 020 $a 9781620976739 035 $a (OCoLC)1282301452 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Walker, Alice, $d 1944- $t We are the ones we have been waiting for. 245 1 $a We are the ones we have been waiting for : $b inner light in a time of darkness : meditations / $c Alice Walker ; foreword by Rebecca Walker. 264 1 $a New York : $b The New Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xii, 257 pages ; $c 19 cm. 500 $a First publised in the United States by The New Press, New York, 2006. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a A book of spiritual ruminations with a progressive political edge, from the Pulitzer Prize-winner who has devoted her life to befriending the earth. Walker has long been a force for sanity in a chaotic world. Here she draws on her deep spiritual grounding, her political conviction, and experience, and her literary gifts to offer a series of meditations filled with wisdom, hope, encouragement, and, at times, serenity to a world in need of all these things. "Happiness ... comes from the simple belief that what one is feeling and doing is right. That it is right to protect rather than terrorize others; right to feed people rather than withhold food (and medicine); right to want the freedom and joyful existence of all human kind ... A deep knowing that we are the earth--our separation from Earth perhaps our greatest illusion--and that we stand, with gratitude and love, by our planetary Self. 541 $d 20211207. 650 $a Essays. 650 $a African American women $v Poetry. 650 $a Social change. 650 $a American essays $y 21st century. 650 $a Meditations. 700 $a Walker, Rebecca, $d 1969 November 17- 941 $a 1 952 $l YUPD232 $d 20220312042103.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=27DF48B6A1D311ECAF119D2821ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search