Quote by Alice Walker
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. – Alice Walker

Other quotes by Alice Walker

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame. – Alice Walker

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Money
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and dont notice it. – Alice Walker

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God
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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because Im the Earth. I wont give up until the Earth gives up. – Alice Walker

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My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed. – Jimmy Smith

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My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3. – Kat Dennings

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I couldnt wait until I grew up. I used to look at my moms stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair. – Florence Griffith Joyner

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My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever. – Andy Partridge

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Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. – Alfred Adler

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People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future. – Aisha Tyler

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Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens. – Edgar A. Suter

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The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction. – Nassau William Senior

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