Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKERYou’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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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