Alice Walker Quotes

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

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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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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

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America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

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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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I think I'm led by spirit. I think I'm led by a sense of what is right and what feels good to me - what I accept, what is joyful, what is positive. I see my mission, in a way, as carrying that forward - not so much by preaching, but by embodiment.

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

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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.

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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

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

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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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Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

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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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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

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