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 WALKERYou’re not here just to be a clone. You’re not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don’t have to apply. You don’t even have to go there to be absolutely yourself – real, here, now, on this planet.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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You can’t send me anywhere that I wouldn’t be happy to go. You’d be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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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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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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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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You’re not here just to be a clone. You’re not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don’t have to apply. You don’t even have to go there to be absolutely yourself – real, here, now, on this planet.
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