The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKERWhenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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