My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
ALICE WALKERThank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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