Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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 write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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You can’t send me anywhere that I wouldn’t be happy to go. You’d be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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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.
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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