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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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