Alice Walker Quotes, Suicide Quotes, Writing Quotes

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

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I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life; I've come too far to be a pessimist.

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...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.

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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

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I think I'm led by spirit. I think I'm led by a sense of what is right and what feels good to me - what I accept, what is joyful, what is positive. I see my mission, in a way, as carrying that forward - not so much by preaching, but by embodiment.

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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

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The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.

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

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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.

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

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Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

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The nature of this flower is to bloom.

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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.

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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

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Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

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During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.

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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

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Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

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People are called 'stars' not only because they shine... because the qualities they exemplify are... eternal. We are attracted to their sparkle, their warmth, their light, but they will be forever distant from us. So distant we can never quite believe our inseparability. Never quite believe that we are also composed of the light they have.

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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

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