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Alice Walker Inspirational Quotes (388)

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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.
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How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.
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This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.
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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
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I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.
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I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?
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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.
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I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.
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People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
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He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.
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HELPED are those who lose their fear of death theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
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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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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
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I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.
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I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.
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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
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HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.
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God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.
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