… 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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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