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.
ALICE WALKERThe original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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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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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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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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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 write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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