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 WALKERActivism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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 matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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