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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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

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Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

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Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

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How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.

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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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Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.

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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

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I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

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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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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

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As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

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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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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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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'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

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Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

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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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Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

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