Alice Walker Quotes, Responsibility Quotes, Artist Quotes

Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

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Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult.

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It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.

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I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

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I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

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So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time; it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart.

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Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

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I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

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There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

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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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You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.

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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

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Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

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it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

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Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

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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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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

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

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