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Alice Walker Inspirational Quotes (388)

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Like I said...fine with me.
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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.
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HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.
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Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.
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I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
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Be nobody's darling Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.
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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.
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Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.
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I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.
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I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.
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When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it.
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What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.
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Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.
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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
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What you hope for, you also fear.
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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.
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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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The nature of this flower is to bloom.
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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.
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To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.
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