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.
ALICE WALKERActivism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there’s a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.
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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 mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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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 try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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