Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKERIt 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Expecting anything, living frugally in 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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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America 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.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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.
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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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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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