Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
ALICE WALKERActivism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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You can’t send me anywhere that I wouldn’t be happy to go. You’d be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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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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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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