Abortion is an act of self-defense.
ALICE WALKERI can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there’s a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.
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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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It’s based, though, on my own life; I’ve come too far to be a pessimist.
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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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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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