Alice Walker Quotes, Mean Quotes, Men Quotes

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

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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that. Church just could not hold my spirit.

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You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.

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In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer.

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I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.

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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

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What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.

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Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.

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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.

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

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Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

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Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

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HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.

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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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To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.

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

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