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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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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 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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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