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.
ALICE WALKERExpecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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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 know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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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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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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