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.
ALICE WALKERExpect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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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.
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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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People will say to you, “Oh, you are fearless.” That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It’s a slander, really.
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