It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKERAbortion is an act of self-defense.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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