Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKEROne thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.
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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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