I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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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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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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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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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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