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.
ALICE WALKERIt matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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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 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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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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