… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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’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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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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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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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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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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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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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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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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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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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