I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
ALICE WALKERRevolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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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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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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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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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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