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.
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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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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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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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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