Alice Walker Quotes, Progress Quotes

Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.

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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

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I think I've actually returned to a kind of realism about how the world works. That's helpful. Because in a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.

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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

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Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

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Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult.

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It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

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My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.

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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

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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 think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or drinking or partying or whatever - if I couldn't get away from that, I would have a heavy heart.

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I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.

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Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.

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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

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We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.

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I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.

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Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

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