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.
ALICE WALKERI try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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