Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
ALICE WALKER… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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People will say to you, “Oh, you are fearless.” That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It’s a slander, really.
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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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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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