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.
ALICE WALKERI 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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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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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 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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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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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