Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKER… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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To 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.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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