It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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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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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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