The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKERWhenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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