I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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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 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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