Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKERIt matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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