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 WALKERMany people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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 heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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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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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.
ALICE WALKER







