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 WALKERI think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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