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.
ALICE WALKERThe original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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