Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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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I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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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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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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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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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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