It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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’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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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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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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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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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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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