Alice Walker Quotes

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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

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Ain't no way to read the bible and not think God white, she say. Then she sigh. When I found out I thought God was white, and a man, I lost interest.

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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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Allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

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Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

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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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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 I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.

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How to teach a barren world to dance? It is a contradiction that divides the world.

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After thousands and thousands of years of women and men living apart, the Ababa had, with great trepidation, experimented with the two tribes living, a couple to a household, together. Each person must remain free, they said. That is the main thing. And so they had designed a dwelling shaped like a bird.

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Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

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"Always respect the word of God,"
she said on her way to she didn't
know where, except it would be by
electric chair, and she continued
"Don't y'all for git to water
my purple petunias."

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When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it.

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If a mule could tell folks how it's treated, it would.

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To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.

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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would....Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

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During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that...

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Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

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There is a magic
lingering after people
to whom success is merely personal.

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We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.

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Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

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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.

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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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There is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.

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

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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

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I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.

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Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

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