My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
ALICE WALKERI think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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.
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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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 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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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