Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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My 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.
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