Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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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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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
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