Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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You’re not here just to be a clone. You’re not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don’t have to apply. You don’t even have to go there to be absolutely yourself – real, here, now, on this planet.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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.
ALICE WALKER