You’re not here just to be a clone. You’re not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don’t have to apply. You don’t even have to go there to be absolutely yourself – real, here, now, on this planet.
ALICE WALKERMy parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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 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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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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You can’t send me anywhere that I wouldn’t be happy to go. You’d be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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