Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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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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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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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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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 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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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