I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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