Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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 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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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there’s a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.
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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 heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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.
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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