Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
ALICE WALKERWherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
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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 try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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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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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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 write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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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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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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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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