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.
ALICE WALKERI 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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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 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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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