Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKERYou can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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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 mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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 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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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