I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
ALICE WALKERWhenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.
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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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