I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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 sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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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 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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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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