I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
ALICE WALKERHow we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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