I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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 parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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