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.
ALICE WALKERThe earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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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