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.
ALICE WALKERThe earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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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 know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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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 write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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