I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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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’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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