Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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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’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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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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