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.
ALICE WALKERThank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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People will say to you, “Oh, you are fearless.” That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It’s a slander, really.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
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