Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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 know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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 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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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You’re not here just to be a clone. You’re not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don’t have to apply. You don’t even have to go there to be absolutely yourself – real, here, now, on this planet.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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