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.
ALICE WALKERAbortion is an act of self-defense.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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