It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKERI think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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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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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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