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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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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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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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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 heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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