Alice Walker Quotes, Mother Quotes, Garden Quotes

Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

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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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You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.

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I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.

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If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.

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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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I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

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Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

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I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.

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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.

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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

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I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

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

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I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

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I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.

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War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

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