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.
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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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