How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
ALICE WALKERI 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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