I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKERAbortion is an act of self-defense.
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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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.
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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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People will say to you, “Oh, you are fearless.” That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It’s a slander, really.
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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