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.
ALICE WALKERI 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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