My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
ALICE WALKERIt 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.
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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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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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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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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.
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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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