Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKERExpecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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 earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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