How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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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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 try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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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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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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