Alice Walker quotes - page 8

People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. (Alice Walker)
Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237. View quote
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His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64. View quote
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The Nature of This Flower Is to Bloom Rebellious. Living. Against the Elemental Crush. A Song of Color Blooming For Deserving Eyes. Blooming Gloriously For its Self. View quote
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At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything. View quote
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My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. View quote
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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior. View quote
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I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion. View quote
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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing. View quote
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The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism? View quote
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My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean? (Alice Walker)
I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been. View quote
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It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care. View quote
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I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life. View quote
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I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really? View quote
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Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand. View quote
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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. View quote
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I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish. View quote
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A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone. View quote
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Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams. View quote
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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it. (Alice Walker)
In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence. View quote
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War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet. View quote
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The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea. View quote
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We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to hand. View quote
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