I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
ALICE WALKERCreation is a sustained period of bliss.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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 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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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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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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You’re not here just to be a clone. You’re not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don’t have to apply. You don’t even have to go there to be absolutely yourself – real, here, now, on this planet.
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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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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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