Alice Walker Quotes

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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the colour purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

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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.

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I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

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But please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.

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You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.

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You a low down dog is what's wrong. It's time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.

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They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. But if yellow is a name Why ain't black the same. Well, if I say Hey black girl Lord, she try to ruin my game.

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Is solace anywhere
more comforting
than in the arms
of sisters?

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Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want.

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There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.

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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.

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To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

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Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.

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It is the song of the people, transformed by the experiences of each generation, that holds them together, and if any part of it is lost the people suffer and are without soul.

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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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Allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

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It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

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We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them...

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Before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!

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