Alice Walker Quotes, Garden Quotes, Two Quotes

I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.

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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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I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

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I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

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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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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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That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.

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The more I wonder, the more I love.

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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

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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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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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You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed. That is correct, Señor. It is as if ideas are made of blocks. Rigid and hard. And stories are made of a gauze that is elastic. You can almost see through it, so what is beyond is tantalizing. You can't quite make it out; and because the imagination is always moving forward, you yourself are constantly stretching. Stories are the way spirit is exercised.

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It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.

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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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HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.

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

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I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

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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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Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

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