… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
ALICE WALKERI 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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You can’t send me anywhere that I wouldn’t be happy to go. You’d be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It’s based, though, on my own life; I’ve come too far to be a pessimist.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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