Alice Walker Quotes, Book Quotes, Important Quotes

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

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Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

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You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

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Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

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People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

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I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.

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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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Like I said...fine with me.

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If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.

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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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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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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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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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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

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I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

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I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

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

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