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.
ALICE WALKERHow sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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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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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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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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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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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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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