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 WALKERI 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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