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.
ALICE WALKERMy parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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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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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 write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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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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You’re not here just to be a clone. You’re not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don’t have to apply. You don’t even have to go there to be absolutely yourself – real, here, now, on this planet.
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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.
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