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.
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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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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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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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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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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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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