Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
ALICE WALKERExpect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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 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.
ALICE WALKER