The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKERPeople 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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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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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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 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.
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