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.
ALICE WALKERMen make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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 know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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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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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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