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Alice Walker quotes: A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself. A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself.
Alice Walker quotes: As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my folks. As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my folks.
Alice Walker quotes: Let 'im hear me, I say. If he ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you. Let 'im hear me, I say. If he ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you.
Alice Walker quotes: I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you. I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.
Alice Walker quotes: What isa promiseifnotyourhandin mine? What is
a promise
if
not
your
hand
in mine?
Alice Walker quotes: My heart must be young and fresh though, it feel like it blooming blood. My heart must be young and fresh though, it feel like it blooming blood.
Alice Walker quotes: I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk. I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.
Alice Walker quotes: Do notbelikecowsgrazingwatchingthebutcher. Do not
be
like
cows
grazing
watching
the
butcher.
Alice Walker quotes: You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what. You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what.
Alice Walker quotes: Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us? Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?
Alice Walker quotes: I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
Alice Walker quotes: Healing begins where the wound was made. Healing begins where the wound was made.
Alice Walker quotes: Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before. Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
Alice Walker quotes: Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights. Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.
Alice Walker quotes: We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone. We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.
Alice Walker quotes: Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?
Alice Walker quotes: Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom. Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.
Alice Walker quotes: I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi. I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
Alice Walker quotes: In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live. In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.
Alice Walker quotes: The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior. The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
Alice Walker quotes: Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written. Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
Alice Walker quotes: We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal. We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.
Alice Walker quotes: Abortion is an act of self-defense. Abortion is an act of self-defense.
Alice Walker quotes: For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended. For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
Alice Walker quotes: I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here. I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
Alice Walker quotes: Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything. Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.
Alice Walker quotes: I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace. I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.
Alice Walker quotes: It is natural to want to have a future. It is natural to want to have a future.
Alice Walker quotes: Peace: the fruit of justice done especially to the Self. Peace: the fruit of justice done especially to the Self.
Alice Walker quotes: His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64 His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64
Alice Walker quotes: Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown. Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.
Alice Walker quotes: I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life. I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.
Alice Walker quotes: I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe. I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.
Alice Walker quotes: Fear is real, but so is love. Fear is real, but so is love.
Alice Walker quotes: We should not look down on our first ancestors. We should not look down on our first ancestors.
Alice Walker quotes: There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
Alice Walker quotes: A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world ... A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world ...
Alice Walker quotes: Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves. Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.
Alice Walker quotes: There's something in all of us that wants a medal for what we have done. That wants to be appreciated. There's something in all of us that wants a medal for what we have done. That wants to be appreciated.
Alice Walker quotes: Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me. Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.
Alice Walker quotes: HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing. HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.
Alice Walker quotes: What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
Alice Walker quotes: It is important to remember yourself. It is important to remember yourself.
Alice Walker quotes: In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Alice Walker quotes: I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves. I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
Alice Walker quotes: I start each book when it's ready and never before. I start each book when it's ready and never before.
Alice Walker quotes: It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing. It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.
Alice Walker quotes: Only the sky above us do we hold in common. Only the sky above us do we hold in common.
Alice Walker quotes: From paradise to paradise I go sweeping; collecting rocks & views; owning nothing but what I feel. From paradise to paradise I go sweeping; collecting rocks & views; owning nothing but what I feel.
Alice Walker quotes: Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet. Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
Alice Walker quotes: Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond. Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.
Alice Walker quotes: Her senior thesis was based on the notion that no one should be allowed to own more land than could be worked in a day, by hand. Her senior thesis was based on the notion that no one should be allowed to own more land than could be worked in a day, by hand.
Alice Walker quotes: My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this? My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
Alice Walker quotes: I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad. I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
Alice Walker quotes: Allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves. Allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.
Alice Walker quotes: Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer. Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.
Alice Walker quotes: She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her.
Alice Walker quotes: She did not see why anyone should worry about her soul, even the people she marched with. "When it gives me trouble," she'd sneer, "I'll call y'all. She did not see why anyone should worry about her soul, even the people she marched with. "When it gives me trouble," she'd sneer, "I'll call y'all.
Alice Walker quotes: - 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.- - 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.-
Alice Walker quotes: My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.
Alice Walker quotes: I don't know who tried to teach him what to do in the bedroom, but it must have been a furniture salesman. I don't know who tried to teach him what to do in the bedroom, but it must have been a furniture salesman.
Alice Walker quotes: How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth. How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
Alice Walker quotes: Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
Alice Walker quotes: War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited. War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
Alice Walker quotes: Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you. Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you.
Alice Walker quotes: June a good time to go off into the world June a good time to go off into the world
Alice Walker quotes: All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
Alice Walker quotes: Every stitch i sew will be a kiss. Every stitch i sew will be a kiss.
Alice Walker quotes: 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. 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.
Alice Walker quotes: The Lord don't like ugly, she say. And he ain't stuck on pretty. The Lord don't like ugly, she say. And he ain't stuck on pretty.
Alice Walker quotes: 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. 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.
Alice Walker quotes: I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing. I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.
Alice Walker quotes: Can't you see I'm already half dead. Can't you see I'm already half dead.
Alice Walker quotes: We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to hand We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to hand
Alice Walker quotes: David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X. David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.
Alice Walker quotes: 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. 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.
Alice Walker quotes: If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls. If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.
Alice Walker quotes: How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Alice Walker quotes: I have a collective sense of suffering. I have a collective sense of suffering.
Alice Walker quotes: My mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in. My mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
Alice Walker quotes: Choosesomeoneto lovewhowouldn't evenhearof it. Choose
someone
to love
who
wouldn't even
hear
of it.
Alice Walker quotes: He never says anything off the top of his head He never says anything off the top of his head
Alice Walker quotes: There was a saying among the Mundo: It takes only one lie to unravel the world. There was a saying among the Mundo: It takes only one lie to unravel the world.
Alice Walker quotes: We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape. We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
Alice Walker quotes: As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s. As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.
Alice Walker quotes: Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate. Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
Alice Walker quotes: I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books]. I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].
Alice Walker quotes: Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have. Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.
Alice Walker quotes: Dear God ... I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me. Dear God ... I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.
Alice Walker quotes: I have such respect for 'Democracy Now!' I have such respect for 'Democracy Now!'
Alice Walker quotes: Her eyes serious tho. Sad some. Her eyes serious tho. Sad some.
Alice Walker quotes: I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing. I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
Alice Walker quotes: You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred. You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.
Alice Walker quotes: I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
Alice Walker quotes: What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy. What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
Alice Walker quotes: Why do tired people sing? Why do tired people sing?
Alice Walker quotes: Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail. Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail.
Alice Walker quotes: I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part. I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.
Alice Walker quotes: That was the beginning of her abstraction. That was the beginning of her abstraction.
Alice Walker quotes: So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

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