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.
ALICE WALKERPoetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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