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.

Quote by Alice Walker

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I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television...

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television...

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Activism is my rent for living on this planet.

Activism is my rent for living on this planet.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down...

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down...

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it...

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it...

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in...

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in...

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole....

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole....

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

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

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for...

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for...

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way...

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way...

Oh, woman, woman! When to ill thy mind is bent, all Hell contains no fouler...

Oh, woman, woman! When to ill thy mind is bent, all Hell contains no fouler...