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 WALKERActivism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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