Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKERProgress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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Well, 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.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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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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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.
ALICE WALKER