Alice Walker
Quotations
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“In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.” -Alice Walker
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“In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.” -Alice Walker
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“Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.” -Alice Walker
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“War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.” -Alice Walker
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“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.” -Alice Walker
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“It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.” -Alice…
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“Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.” -Alice Walker
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“I’m sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.” -Alice Walker
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“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.” -Alice Walker
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“Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.” -Alice Walker
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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.” -Alice Walker
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“The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.” -Alice Walker
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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.” -Alice Walker
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“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.” -Alice Walker
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“Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.” -Alice Walker
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“I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‘See, you did it yourself.’” -Alice Walker
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“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” -Alice Walker
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“Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.” -Alice Walker
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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.” -Alice Walker
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“In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.” -Alice Walker
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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.” -Alice Walker
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“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” -Alice Walker
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“Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.” -Alice Walker
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“As you know from school, it’s when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you’ve done your best.” -Alice Walker
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“Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.” -Alice Walker
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“The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.” -Alice Walker
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“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.” -Alice Walker
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“I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‘See, you did it yourself.’” -Alice Walker
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“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.” -Alice Walker
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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.” -Alice Walker
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“As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.” -Alice Walker
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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.” -Alice Walker
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