The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKERYou can’t send me anywhere that I wouldn’t be happy to go. You’d be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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