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 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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People will say to you, “Oh, you are fearless.” That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It’s a slander, really.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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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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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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I 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.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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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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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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