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.
ALICE WALKERWell, 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It’s based, though, on my own life; I’ve come too far to be a pessimist.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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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’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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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