Alice Walker Quotes, Mother Quotes, Children Quotes

The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.

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You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.

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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.

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Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

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As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.

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You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.

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You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

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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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Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.

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allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

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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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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

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If you don't have the ability or encouragement to use yourself in a physical way, you could become just another talking head. And talking heads run things. That's part of the reason why we're in such a sad state as a planet, because it's all about thinking, and thinking has led to a lot of aggrandizement - taking over [resources] and figuring out how you can steal and leaving people and the planet in an impoverished state.

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Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

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Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.

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What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.

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We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.

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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

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Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

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War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

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