We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
ALICE WALKERThank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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