Alice Walker Quotes, Heart Quotes, People Quotes

I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine, if you've given it your whole heart and soul. You're totally in sync with your purpose and with the universe. And that's fine.

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My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

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I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

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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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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

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I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.

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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

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I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.

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The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

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Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.

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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

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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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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

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There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

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I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

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