Alice Walker Quotes, Daughter Quotes, Mother Quotes

I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.

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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

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I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.

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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

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My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, "OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep." That's about it.

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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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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

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My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

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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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The artist...is the voice of the people.

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Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.

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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.

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All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

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We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

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God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.

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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

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

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