Alice Walker Quotes, Hair Quotes, Left Alone Quotes

Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.

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One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.

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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

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You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

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Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

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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 has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.

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We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

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It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period

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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.

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I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

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The nature of this flower is to bloom.

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

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The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.

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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

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I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.

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I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious

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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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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

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