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 WALKERMany people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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 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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It’s based, though, on my own life; I’ve come too far to be a pessimist.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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