Alice Walker Quotes, Light Quotes, Cost Quotes

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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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

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This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

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Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself

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The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.

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

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

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Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

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It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period

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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.

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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

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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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Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

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Only dead people need loud music, you know.

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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

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The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you're not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That's what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet.

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Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

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