I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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 can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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 mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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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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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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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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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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