Alma Luz Villanueva Quotes

A trance healer in Bali, an eagle woman, asked me, 'What is freedom, madam?' She had a chained eagle, her ally in healing, and it broke my heart, those huge, folded wings. So I asked her why the eagle couldn't fly free, why it was chained. And then her eagle eyes dug into mine, and she asked, 'What is freedom, madam?

Alma Luz Villanueva

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• The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.

  

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• Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

  

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• A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

  

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• If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

  

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• I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.

  

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• I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.

  

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• Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.

  

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• A trance healer in Bali, an eagle woman, asked me, 'What is freedom, madam?' She had a chained eagle, her ally in healing, and it broke my heart, those huge, folded wings. So I asked her why the eagle couldn't fly free, why it was chained. And then her eagle eyes dug into mine, and she asked, 'What is freedom, madam?

  

  Alma Luz Villanueva
  • Freedom
  • Asked
  • Eagle