Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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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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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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You’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.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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