Quote by Alice Walker
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker

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

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Politically, the world is so confused right now – theres so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. – Alice Walker

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Government
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. – Alice Walker

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Death
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I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, black feminist does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And its just… womanish. – Alice Walker

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Women
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When all else is lost, the future still remains. – Christian Nestell Bovee

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At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world. – Charles Darwin

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If we wish our states growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce. – Jay Weatherill

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I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like. – Michelangelo Antonioni

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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship,” Essays, 1841

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To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of learning. – Source Unknown

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Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. – Oprah Winfrey

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When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart. – John Bunyan

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