Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKERExpecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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 see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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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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