Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKERYou’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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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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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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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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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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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