Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
ALICE WALKERPoetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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