How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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