We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
ALICE WALKERCreation is a sustained period of bliss.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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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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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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