Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKERProgress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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