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Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.
Alice Walker
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
Alice Walker
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
Alice Walker
In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
Alice Walker
Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.
Alice Walker
I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.
Alice Walker
Anything we love can be saved.
Alice Walker
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.
Alice Walker
To know is to exist to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.
Alice Walker
There is no graceful way to carry hatred.
Alice Walker
As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.
Alice Walker
Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.
Alice Walker
My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
Alice Walker
... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
Alice Walker
the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness without your dancing through the years that had no beat.
Alice Walker
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
Alice Walker
I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
Alice Walker
It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
Alice Walker
