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 WALKERI 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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 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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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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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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