Alice Walker Quotes, Past Quotes, Race Quotes

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

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Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are being constructed that some countries consider their economics healthy. Yet each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth. Just as all our possessions represent-if we cannot learn ways of sharing them-a weight and clutter that often means the faces of future generations will look up into darkness and the pressure on the Earth of "things."

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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

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it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

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HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.

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no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.

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You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.

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This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

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People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.

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I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

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I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature.

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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.

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