It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.
ALICE WALKERThe original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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People will say to you, “Oh, you are fearless.” That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It’s a slander, really.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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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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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
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