Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
ALICE WALKERMy parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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