I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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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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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.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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