The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKERWe writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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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 matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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