Alice Walker - Children Quotes

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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

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I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

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Human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.

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He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.

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We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.

Alice Walker