It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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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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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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