How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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