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.
ALICE WALKERI think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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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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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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