Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKERCreation is a sustained period of bliss.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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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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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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