One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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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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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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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You can’t send me anywhere that I wouldn’t be happy to go. You’d be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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