I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKERI’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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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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