Alice Walker Quotes - Page 12

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• I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money to keep it going. So, I learned to struggle from a very early way in a way that was truly indigenous to the South.

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  Struggle, School, People

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

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  Thinking, Forever, Earth

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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.

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  People, Infinite, Justified

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• Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

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  Writing, Violence, Sin

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.108, Rutgers University Press

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• But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

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  Fighting, Alive, Know How

  Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

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  Life, Dance, Flower

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.30, Ballantine Books

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• Resistance is the secret of joy!

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  Joy, Secret, Resistance

  Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) See Ricciardi 1; AliceWalker 8

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• The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

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  Technology, Men, Peaceful

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.289, New Press, The

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• I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.

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  Pain, War, Heart

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• I want something else; a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism. Notice how this word has "man" right in the middle of it? That's one reason I like it. He is right there, front and center. But he is surrounded. I want to vote and work for a way of life that honors the feminine.

  Alice Walker

  Men, Years, Honor

  Source: inamerica.blogs.cnn.com

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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?

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  Eye, Emotional, Thinking

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 6, 2010.

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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.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Animal

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.278, Hachette UK

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• My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

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  Parent, Culture, Taught

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• My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

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  Religious, Children

  Source: electronicintifada.net

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• The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

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  Wise, Earth Day, Given

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.256, Hachette UK

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• Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.

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  Yoga, Teaching, Mean

  Alice Walker (2007). “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness”, p.240, The New Press

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• Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.

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  Mirrors, Greed, Revolt

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• When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it.

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  Curious, Ends, Wells

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.294, The New Press

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• Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.

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  Buddhist, People, Greed

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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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.

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  Writing, People, Feelings

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• 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.

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  Eye, People, Forever

  Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

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• All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.

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  Girl, Cousin, Brother

  "The Color Purple". www.npr.org. December 16, 1985.

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• It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.

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  Country, Land, Earth

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• One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.

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  Men, Air, White Man

  Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.

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  Revolution, Scarce, Plentiful

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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