Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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 mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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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.
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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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 write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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