Alice Walker Quotes, Black History Quotes

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

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You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

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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 feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?

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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

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We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.

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God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.

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The artist...is the voice of the people.

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But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

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I think I've actually returned to a kind of realism about how the world works. That's helpful. Because in a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.

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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.

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Only dead people need loud music, you know.

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In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.

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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

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Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult.

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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

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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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