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.
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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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 one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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