Alice Walker Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Race Quotes

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

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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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HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

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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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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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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

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I'm the most stubborn person I know.

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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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I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.

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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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The nature of this flower is to bloom.

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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

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The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.

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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

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

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In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

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One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.

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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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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

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