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.
ALICE WALKERProgress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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 truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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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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