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.
ALICE WALKERThank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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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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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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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 earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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