Alice Walker Quotes, Hair Quotes, Left Alone Quotes

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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In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.

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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 hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen to you. It's not just that you're there standing next to somebody that something bad is likely to happen to. That is a true moment of reckoning with who you really are.

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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

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I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?

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For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

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Love yourself. Just love yourself. In fact, the love of the self cures every kind of problem you have with yourself. For instance, if someone calls you nappy-headed, it rolls right off your body, if you love nappy hair. Or if someone calls you buck-toothed or too black, that won't be a problem if you love being buck-toothed or black. If you love it, then so what. The development of self-love cures many of the ills that people suffer from.

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Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.

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It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.

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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

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When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

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Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

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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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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

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Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

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People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

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We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.

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