Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKERTo me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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 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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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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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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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