Alice Walker Quotes

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Alice Walker

Profession : Author

Birth : February 9, 1944

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Alice Walker

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

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

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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.

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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

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I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

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You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.

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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

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Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

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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.

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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

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The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

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Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

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It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

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It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.

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I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.

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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

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