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.
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’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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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 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 think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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