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.
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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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You’re not here just to be a clone. You’re not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don’t have to apply. You don’t even have to go there to be absolutely yourself – real, here, now, on this planet.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.
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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.
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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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