Quotes by Alice Walker

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

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  • The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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  • The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
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  • The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
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  • 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.
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  • There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.
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  • There is no graceful way to carry hatred.
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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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  • Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
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  • We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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  • We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
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  • What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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  • What you hope for, you also fear.
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  • What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.
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  • Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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  • Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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  • Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
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  • Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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  • Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
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  • You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.
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