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.
ALICE WALKERI’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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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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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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