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.
ALICE WALKERIt 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Expecting anything, living frugally in 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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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You can’t send me anywhere that I wouldn’t be happy to go. You’d be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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