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.
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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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’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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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