Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKERThe original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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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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