Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKERI’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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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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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 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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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 know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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