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.
ALICE WALKERHow sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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 think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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