America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.
ALICE WALKERThe original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It’s based, though, on my own life; I’ve come too far to be a pessimist.
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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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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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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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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