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.
ALICE WALKERAmerica 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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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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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 matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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