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.
ALICE WALKERAbortion is an act of self-defense.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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 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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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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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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