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.
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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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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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I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It’s based, though, on my own life; I’ve come too far to be a pessimist.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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 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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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