Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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