I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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 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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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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