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Alice Walker Inspirational Quotes (388)

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Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
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I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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I'm the most stubborn person I know.
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Healing cannot be done by settling a score.
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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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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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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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Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
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My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.
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no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.
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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.
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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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I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
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There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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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.
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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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I'm not being disrespectful of the medium it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].
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I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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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'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?
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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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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
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