Abortion is an act of self-defense.
ALICE WALKERMy 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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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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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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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.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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