The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKERJust because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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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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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I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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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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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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