Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKERExpect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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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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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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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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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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