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.
ALICE WALKERHow we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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