We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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