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.
ALICE WALKERPeople 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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.
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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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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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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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