How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
ALICE WALKERAbortion is an act of self-defense.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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 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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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I 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.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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’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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