… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
ALICE WALKERActivism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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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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