“If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. …Writing permits meto experience life as any number of strange creations.”
Alice Walker
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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 turnedon her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.”
Alice Walker
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“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”
Alice Walker
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“It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.”
Alice Walker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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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.”
Alice Walker
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“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”
Alice Walker
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“The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.”
Alice Walker
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“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
Alice Walker
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“Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.”
Alice Walker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Expectation
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“Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.”
Alice Walker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.”
Alice Walker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
