Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKERMen make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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’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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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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