Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKEROne 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.
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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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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You can’t send me anywhere that I wouldn’t be happy to go. You’d be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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You’re not here just to be a clone. You’re not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don’t have to apply. You don’t even have to go there to be absolutely yourself – real, here, now, on this 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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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