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.
ALICE WALKERMen make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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 know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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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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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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