Alice Walker
American Author, Critic
Lived from: 1944 - 1982
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United States
Born: 9 february 1944 Died: 14 october 1982
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Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.
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I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.
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I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
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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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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.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.
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I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm just curious.
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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
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If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.
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If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's ''mature'' critics often are.
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It is natural to want to have a future.
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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
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It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.
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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
― Alice Walker
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