Alice Walker quotes - page 3

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. (Alice Walker)
it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure. View quote
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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. View quote
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Resistance is the secret of joy! View quote
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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. View quote
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But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain. View quote
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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin. View quote
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The little I knew about my own self wouldn't have filled a thimble! View quote
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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. View quote
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have. View quote
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She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God. (Alice Walker)
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming. View quote
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I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here. View quote
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. View quote
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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. View quote
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I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It. View quote
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul. View quote
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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. View quote
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we are the ones we have been waiting for. View quote
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I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose. View quote
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. (Alice Walker)
I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything. View quote
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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to. View quote
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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. View quote
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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. View quote
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