Alice Walker - Life Quotes

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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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Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.

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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

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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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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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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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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril.... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

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I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.

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To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.

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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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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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There was in Meridian's chest a breaking as if a tight string binding her lungs had given way, allowing her to breathe freely. For she understood, finally, that the respect she owed her life was to continue, against whatever obstacles, to live it, and not to give up any particle of it without a fight to the death, preferably not her own.

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I knew I wanted my own suffering, the suffering of women and little girls, still cringing before the overpowering might and weapons of the torturers, to be the subject of a sermon. Was woman herself not the tree of life? And was she not crucified? Not in some age no one even remembers, but right now, daily, in many lands on earth?

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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

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