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Alice Walker Inspirational Quotes (388)

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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
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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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Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.
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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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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
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All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
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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.
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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.'
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America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.
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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
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I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.
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Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.
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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
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I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.
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You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.
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Eventually I knew what hair wanted it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.
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allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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.
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