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Alice Walker

Alice Walker

American Author, Critic

Lived from: 1944 - 1982

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 9 february 1944 Died: 14 october 1982

  • All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
  • Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
  • The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
  • People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
  • I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
  • The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
  • And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
  • I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
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  • Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
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  • It is natural to want to have a future.
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  • Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
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  • To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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