Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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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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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 parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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People will say to you, “Oh, you are fearless.” That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It’s a slander, really.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER