It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKERPeople 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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 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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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