I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
ALICE WALKERAmerica 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It’s based, though, on my own life; I’ve come too far to be a pessimist.
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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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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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 know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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