Alice Walker Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Temptation Quotes

Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.

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In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

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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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I think I've actually returned to a kind of realism about how the world works. That's helpful. Because in a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.

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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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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

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It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.

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This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.

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A grown child is a dangerous thing.

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In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.

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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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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

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I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.

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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.

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My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

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We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.

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