Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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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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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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