Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKERHow sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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 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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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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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 earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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 see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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