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.
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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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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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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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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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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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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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