Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKERWe writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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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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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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