Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKERIt matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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 know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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 write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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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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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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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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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