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.
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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People will say to you, “Oh, you are fearless.” That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It’s a slander, really.
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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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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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One 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.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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