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.
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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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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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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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.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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