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.
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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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