Alice Walker Quotes, Believe Quotes, Years Quotes

During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.

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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

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we are the ones we have been waiting for

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There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.

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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

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It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.

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It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

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What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.

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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

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For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

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I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

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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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Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

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We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

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Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.

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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

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I'm the most stubborn person I know.

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In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.

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I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

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