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 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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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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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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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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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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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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