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.
ALICE WALKERRevolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.
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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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