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.
ALICE WALKERCreation is a sustained period of bliss.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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 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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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