Alice Walker Quotes, Unique Quotes, Self Quotes

I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

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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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The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

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I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in this culture. This culture is the noisiest culture ever, ever. I think the damage that it has done to people is in that realm of silencing them. They are overwhelmed by gadgets. They don't know what to think because they're so heavily programmed about what it is that they should want and should think.

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What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

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Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

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

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

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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.

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Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

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

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Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.

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

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