Alice Walker Quotes, Views Quotes, People Quotes

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

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I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

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This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.

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I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best way to get them to read, is to read. The best way to get them to do anything is to do it yourself, and they will absolutely copy you. That way, you don't have to worry about what's supposedly age appropriate, a child will pick something up when the child is ready.

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Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.

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I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.

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Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.

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

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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

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Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

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HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.

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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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Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

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In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer.

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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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She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

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Healing begins where the wound was made.

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