Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKERExpecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in 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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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