Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKERExpecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
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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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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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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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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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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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