My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
ALICE WALKERMany people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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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 think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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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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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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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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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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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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