The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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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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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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