Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
ALICE WALKERThank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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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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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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