Alice Walker Quotes, Block Quotes, Moving Quotes

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 is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

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As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

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The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

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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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Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

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Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

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I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

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Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

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... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.

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I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature.

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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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Only dead people need loud music, you know.

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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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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

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She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.

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I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

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Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

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