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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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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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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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