Expecting anything, living frugally in 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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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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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there’s a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.
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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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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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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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 know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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You’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.
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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