Alice Walker quotes - page 5

(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless. (Alice Walker)
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. View quote
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We do not believe in heaven or hell...; we do not believe in eternal damnation. We believe only in the unavoidable horror of hurting others and of likewise being hurt. View quote
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Well, sometime Mr -- git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr -- head open, she say. Think bout heaven later. View quote
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I love his dear eyes in which the vulnerability and beauty of his soul can be plainly read. View quote
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He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation I have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain. View quote
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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. View quote
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They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. But if yellow is a name Why aint black the same. Well, if I say Hey black girl Lord, she try to ruin my game. View quote
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But please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. View quote
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I think unless the people are given information about what is happening to them, they will die in ignorance. And i think that's the big sin. I mean if there is such a thing as a sin, that's it, to destroy people and not have them have a clue about how this is happening. View quote
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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom. (Alice Walker)
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' View quote
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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass. View quote
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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. View quote
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Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it. View quote
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Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything. View quote
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I want a grown-up attitude to Cuba, for instance, a country and people I love. I want an end to the war immediately, and I want the soldiers to be encouraged to destroy their weapons and drive themselves out of Iraq. I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the US to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on. But most of all I want someone with the confidence to talk to anyone, "enemy" or "friend", and this Obama has shown he can do. View quote
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And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238. View quote
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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future. View quote
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Healing begins where the wound was made. View quote
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It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it. (Alice Walker)
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame. View quote
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If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it. View quote
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A burnt finger remember the fire. View quote
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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. View quote
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