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.
ALICE WALKERMany people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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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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