I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
ALICE WALKERCreation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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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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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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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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