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’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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