Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKERThank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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