Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKERCreation is a sustained period of bliss.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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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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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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