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 WALKERThank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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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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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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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 have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It’s based, though, on my own life; I’ve come too far to be a pessimist.
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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