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.
ALICE WALKERWhenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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 think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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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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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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