Alice Walker Quotes, Writing Quotes, People Quotes

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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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

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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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I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.

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You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.

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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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What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.

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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

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Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.

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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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Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.

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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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Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only enough. Stop short of the urge to plead, then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger than your own small heart or greater than a star. Tame wild disappointment with caress, unmoved and cold. Make of it a parka for your soul. Discover the reason why so tiny human midget exists at all, so scared and so unwise. But expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

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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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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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It is natural to want to have a future.

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Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, "Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?"

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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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