Mother Quotes by Alice Walker

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

— Alice Walker

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

— Alice Walker

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

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... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.

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My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

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No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write,…

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“This room is very powerful: Buddha, golden, holding down one side; the primordial Great Mother, black, offering her bead of mitochondria holding…

— Alice Walker

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about…

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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

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I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

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I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

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Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I…

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I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I…

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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that.…

— Alice Walker

The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that.…

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I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of…

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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…

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My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a…

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The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A…

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My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in…

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I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to…

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“A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she…

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I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up…

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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower…

— Alice Walker