Alice Walker Quotes
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Alice Walker Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.
I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.
You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what.
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
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.
I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
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.
I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.
I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.
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 ...
Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.
There's something in all of us that wants a medal for what we have done. That wants to be appreciated.
HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
- 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.-
I don't know who tried to teach him what to do in the bedroom, but it must have been a furniture salesman.
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.
War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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.
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.
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.
I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].
Dear God ... I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.
I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.