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.
ALICE WALKERExpect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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