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.
ALICE WALKERRevolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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 one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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