Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
ALICE WALKER… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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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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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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.
ALICE WALKER