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.
ALICE WALKERI 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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