“We all walk softly away.
We would stay and be the nurse but
there are too many of us and we are too worried to help.
It is love that walks away
and yet we have terrible mouths
and soft milk hands.
We worry with like.
We walk away like love.”
"To Like, To Love"
Poems 1971-1973 (1981)
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“We'll walk away if we don't get the deal that we want.”
2010s, 2016, July, 2016 Republican National Convention (21 July 2016)

Source: Goodbye, Columbus (1959), Chapter 2
Context: We came back to the chairs now and then and sang hesitant, clever, nervous, gentle dithyrambs about how we were beginning to feel towards one another. Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them-at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them. We whipped our strangeness and newness into a froth that resembled love, and we dared not play too long with it, talk too much of it, or it would flatten and fizzle away. So we moved back and forth from chairs to water, from talk to silence, and considering my unshakable edginess with Brenda, and the high walls of ego that rose, buttresses and all, between her and her knowledge of herself, we managed pretty well.
Closing lines of his address to the 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, in July 2000.
Source: Nkosi's speech at Nkosi's Haven http://www.nkosi.iafrica.com/index.html

“We did not yet have laws or order. We were like children just learning to walk.”
On the Democratic Kampuchea period, as reported by David Ashley (1995) and quoted in David P. Chandler, Brother Number One (1999)
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 240