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 WALKERRevolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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