Expect nothing. Live frugally on 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 earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the 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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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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