Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKERIt is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.
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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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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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