Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKERI’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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 try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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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