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.
ALICE WALKERRevolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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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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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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