Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKERWhenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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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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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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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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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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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
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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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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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