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.
ALICE WALKERThe earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.
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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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