Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKERAbortion is an act of self-defense.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
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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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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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