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.
ALICE WALKERI write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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 simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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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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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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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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