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.
ALICE WALKERI 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.
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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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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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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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 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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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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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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