Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKERIt matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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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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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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 can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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