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.
ALICE WALKERRevolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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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.
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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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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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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 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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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