Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKERWherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there’s a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.
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