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.
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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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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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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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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