Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKERAmerica 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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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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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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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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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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