Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKERI think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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 know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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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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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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