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.
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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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.
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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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