It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKERIt 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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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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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 try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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