Alice Walker Quotes

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Alice Walker

Profession : Author

Birth : February 9, 1944

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

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This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

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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.

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Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

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Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

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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.

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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

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I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

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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.

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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

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Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it.

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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.

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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.

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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

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As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

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All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

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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.

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