Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKERWell, 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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 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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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 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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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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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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