The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKERIt matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
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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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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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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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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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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’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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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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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 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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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