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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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