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 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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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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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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I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
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