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.
ALICE WALKERWhoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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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 try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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’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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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