I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKERPoetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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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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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 see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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