Alice Walker Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Fake Friends Quotes

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

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Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

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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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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.

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the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat.

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There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.

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As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

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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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I just really love people a lot. I really love them.

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Howard Zinn helped us desegregate Atlanta. That was moving because he took a lot of abuse for that. He and Staughton Lynd, a fellow professor who was also from the North, stood with us. They were certainly behind us. In fact, they often stood in front of us. This had a huge impact on me. But one of the reasons I was very careful about speaking about the relationship I had with him and Staughton was because, in a racist society, if you acknowledge a deep love for and a deep debt owed to white teachers, they tend to discredit your own parents and your own community.

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

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... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.

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

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I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.

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before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!

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I am an elder, and I am delighted to be an elder. I would like to exhibit [and] explore it more - what an elder could mean in this time. But, I'd like to show that elders are good for us - that they can be good for us.

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For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

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Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

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

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I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

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