I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKERWhenever 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.
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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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It’s based, though, on my own life; I’ve come too far to be a pessimist.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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