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 WALKERIt matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
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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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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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