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.
ALICE WALKERI 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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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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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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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 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 write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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