Alice Walker Quotes

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People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

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Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.... The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.

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Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?

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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.

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Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

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It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible.

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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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I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

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All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men. But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house. She let out her breath. I loves Harpo, she say. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.

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The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory

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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?

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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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O landscape of my birth
you have never been far from my heart.
It is I who have been far.
If you will take me back
Know that I
Am yours.

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Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.

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I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.

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It seems our fate to be incorrect... and in our incorrectness stand.

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Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.

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How I miss my father.
I wish he had not been
so tired
when I was
born.

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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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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see... Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength – in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

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It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

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

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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

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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, are my mother's stories.

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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

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Did this happen to your mother? Did your sister throw up a lot?

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