Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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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 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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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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