To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
ALICE WALKERJust because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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 can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there’s a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.
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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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