black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

Alice Walker

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
ALICE WALKER

Gun Men Peace
Abortion is an act of self-defense.
ALICE WALKER

Abortion Defense Self
… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
ALICE WALKER

Flower House Mother
I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
ALICE WALKER

Black Listening Voice
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

Crime Dissent Originals
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods
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.
ALICE WALKER

Change Grief Real Thing
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.
ALICE WALKER

Faith Humanity Pessimist
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
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.
ALICE WALKER

Children Religious
I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKER

Believe One Say
It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKER

Feel Matter Universe
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER

Heart Literature Trying
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKER

People Peril Trustworthy
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.
ALICE WALKER

Fearless People Think
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.
ALICE WALKER

Enough Planet Real

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Alice Walker Quotes