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 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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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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People 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.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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