One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
ALICE WALKERHard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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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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You’re not here just to be a clone. You’re not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don’t have to apply. You don’t even have to go there to be absolutely yourself – real, here, now, on this planet.
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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 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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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