Alice Walker Short Quotes

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Nobody's as powerful as we make them out to be.

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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

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Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.

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

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Allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

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'Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

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

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Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

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

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I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.

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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

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

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

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The artist is the voice of the people, but she is also The People.

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

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The little I knew about my own self wouldn't have filled a thimble!

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

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Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.

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Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Qualified to live
Among your dead.

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

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You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.

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

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The quietly pacifist peaceful
always die
to make room for men
who shout.

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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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The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.

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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

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The original 'crime' of 'niggers' and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

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