Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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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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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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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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