Alice Walker - People Quotes

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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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I felt in Georgia and on the east coast generally very squeezed. People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box or they need to label you and fix you in time and location. I feel a greater fluidity here. People are much more willing to accept that nothing is permanent, everything is changeable so there is freedom and I do need to live where I can be free.

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

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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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She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.

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People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

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

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I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.

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

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

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Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.

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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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I am afraid of people
who cannot cry
Tears left unshed
turn to poison
in the ducts.

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There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

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I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers...

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Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they were willing to actually remain fools.

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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.

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The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.

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God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.

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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother – the blacker she is the more us she is – and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

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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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I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

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