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.
ALICE WALKERWhenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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