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 heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
More Alice Walker Quotes
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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