Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKERI try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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