Alice Walker Quotes, Heart Quotes, People Quotes

Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.

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It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period

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

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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.

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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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To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.

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When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.

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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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The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you're not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That's what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet.

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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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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

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I think I've actually returned to a kind of realism about how the world works. That's helpful. Because in a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.

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I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

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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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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?

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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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Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

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