I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
ALICE WALKERTo 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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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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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 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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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.
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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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