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.
ALICE WALKERI know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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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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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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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
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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’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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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