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.
ALICE WALKERI’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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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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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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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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