Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
ALICE WALKERI know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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Well, 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.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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