Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKERWell, 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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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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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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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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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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