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 WALKERIt 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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