Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKERIt 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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 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.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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