The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKERI 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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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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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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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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