Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKEROne 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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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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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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.
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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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