Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKERThe earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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 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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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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 try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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