I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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 have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It’s based, though, on my own life; I’ve come too far to be a pessimist.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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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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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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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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I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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