Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
ALICE WALKERRevolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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You can’t send me anywhere that I wouldn’t be happy to go. You’d be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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