I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
ALICE WALKERJust because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.
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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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.
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