Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKERI know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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 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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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.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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 sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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