Alice Walker Quotes, People Quotes, Feelings Quotes

Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.

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To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.

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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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human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.

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You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

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I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

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Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.

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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

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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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Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

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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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The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, "Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Well, fine. But, the land there, the landscape is extraordinary. It's big lakes and beautiful hills and trees.

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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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Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

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Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

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