My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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 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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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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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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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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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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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 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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