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.
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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I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.
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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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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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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.
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America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.
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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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