America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.
ALICE WALKERThe original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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