… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
ALICE WALKERCreation is a sustained period of bliss.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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 try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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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 sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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