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.
ALICE WALKERWhoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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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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