My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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 try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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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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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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You can’t send me anywhere that I wouldn’t be happy to go. You’d be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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