Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKERProgress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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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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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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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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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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