Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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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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