Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
Interpretation
Animals have their own ways of communicating, which often go unnoticed by humans.
This quote by Alice Walker emphasizes the often-overlooked ability of animals to communicate effectively within their own species. It suggests that while animals possess a rich means of expression and interaction, human beings tend to dismiss or ignore these communications, leading to a lack of understanding and appreciation for the complexity of animal lives.
In practice
During a discussion on animal rights, this quote can highlight the importance of recognizing animal communication.
June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.
On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.
I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.
How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other
...What you are is a force--a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream...You are life
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.
Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.
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