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 WALKERYou can’t send me anywhere that I wouldn’t be happy to go. You’d be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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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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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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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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