I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKERThe original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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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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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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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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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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