How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there’s a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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