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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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 you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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