Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKERYou’re not here just to be a clone. You’re not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don’t have to apply. You don’t even have to go there to be absolutely yourself – real, here, now, on this planet.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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 you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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You can’t send me anywhere that I wouldn’t be happy to go. You’d be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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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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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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