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.
ALICE WALKERProgress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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’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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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