Alice Walker Quotes - Page 7

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• My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?

  Alice Walker

  Hurt, Believe, Heart

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

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• It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.

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  Creativity, Space, Mind

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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.

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  Views, People, Different

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• Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

  Alice Walker

  Progress, Revolution

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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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  Inspiring, God, Religious

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

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  Hurt, Drinking, Bottles

  Alice Walker (2003). “The third life of Grange Copeland: Meridian ; The color purple”

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• Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.

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  Purple, Trying, Want

  "Fictional character: Shug Avery". "The Color Purple", www.imdb.com. December 16, 1985.

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• I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

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  Writing, Hatred, Littles

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.

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  Long, Accommodations, Protect

  Alice Walker (1994). “The Complete Stories”

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• The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.

  Alice Walker

  Girl, Mother, Children

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

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• To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.

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  Struggle, Moving, Thinking

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• Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. Watch the people succumb To madness With ample cheer; Let them look askance at you And you askance reply. Be an outcast; Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool) Or line the crowded River beds With other impetuous Fools. Make a merry gathering On the bank Where thousands perished For brave hurt words They said. Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Qualified to live Among your dead.

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  Hurt, Cheer, Rivers

  Alice Walker (2011). “Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

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  Age, Planets, Persons

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.207, Hachette UK

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• I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But 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, Damage

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

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• (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.

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  Struggle, Moon, Spirit Love

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.1964, Hachette UK

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• Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are being constructed that some countries consider their economics healthy. Yet each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth. Just as all our possessions represent-if we cannot learn ways of sharing them-a weight and clutter that often means the faces of future generations will look up into darkness and the pressure on the Earth of "things."

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  Country, Mean, House

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• I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.

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  Country, Thinking, America

  Source: inamerica.blogs.cnn.com

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• What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are.

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  Thinking, People, Mexican

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• What you hope for, you also fear.

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

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• I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.

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  Believe, Found, Shug

  "Anything We Love Can Be Saved". Book by Alice Walker, June 1997.

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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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  Mom, Mother, Flawed

  Alice Walker (1997). “Possessing the Secret of Joy”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.

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  War, Thinking, Impact

  "Poet, Author Alice Walker Meets the Inner Journey with Global Activism in 'The Cushion in the Road'". Interview with Amy Goodman and Aaron Maté, www.democracynow.org. May 28, 2013.

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• The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory

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  Memories, Way, Life Is

  Alice Walker (2012). “By the Light of My Father's Smile: A Novel”, p.252, Ballantine Books

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• I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

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  People, Jokes

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.15, New Press, The

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• We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

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  Happiness, Success, Perseverance

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Fiction”, p.804, Hachette UK

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