Alice Walker Quotes, Eye Quotes, People Quotes

Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.

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I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

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I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.

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I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in this culture. This culture is the noisiest culture ever, ever. I think the damage that it has done to people is in that realm of silencing them. They are overwhelmed by gadgets. They don't know what to think because they're so heavily programmed about what it is that they should want and should think.

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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

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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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When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it.

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

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

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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?

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No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

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The nature of this flower is to bloom.

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All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.

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Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?

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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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