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.
ALICE WALKERExpecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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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’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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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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