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.
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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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People will say to you, “Oh, you are fearless.” That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It’s a slander, really.
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