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Alice Walker Quotes

All Quotes Activism Art Attitude Black History Change Children Church Compassion Consciousness Country Creation Creativity Criticism Culture Dancing Diversity Duty Earth Elders Evil Expectations Fashion Fear Feelings Fighting Freedom Gardening Giving God Gratitude Greed Hatred Healing Heart Heaven Honor House Humanity Hurt Imagination Inspirational Inspiring Joy Justice Life Literature Love Meditation Motivational Nature Pain Peace Prayer Reading Religion Revolution Running Sin Soul Struggle Suffering Teaching Understanding Universe Waiting War Worry Writing Yoga

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

Beauty, Law Of Attraction, Creating

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Friendship, Fake Friends, Memorable

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.17, Hachette UK

There is no graceful way to carry hatred.

Hatred, Way

Alice Walker (2013). “Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems”, p.12, New World Library

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Thank You

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

Motivational, Change, Uplifting

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Numbers, Needs, Trustworthiness

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.

Heart, Artist, Broken

Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.164, New Press, The

To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.

Pain, Mean, Fighting

Alice Walker (2011). “Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990”, p.87, Hachette UK

Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

Compassion, Helping Others, Volunteer

Healing begins where the wound was made.

Healing, Black, Made

Alice Walker (2012). “The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart”, p.217, Ballantine Books

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.

Attitude, Accepting, Should

Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 6, 2010.

Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.

Love Is, Hatred, Want

Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

Compassion, Balance, Cruelty

Alice Walker (1997). “Possessing the Secret of Joy”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

we are the ones we have been waiting for

Change, Confidence, Life Changing

Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.342, The New Press

Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.

Dream, Inspirational Love, I Love Him

Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Sincerely, Invited

"Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973-1987". Book by Alice Walker, 1989.

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Art, Black History, Earth

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Peace, Ubuntu, Political

Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

Work, Naps, People

Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.146, New Press, The

Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.

Outcast, Walks

Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.137, Ballantine Books

Love yourself. Just love yourself. In fact, the love of the self cures every kind of problem you have with yourself. For instance, if someone calls you nappy-headed, it rolls right off your body, if you love nappy hair. Or if someone calls you buck-toothed or too black, that won't be a problem if you love being buck-toothed or black. If you love it, then so what. The development of self-love cures many of the ills that people suffer from.

Love You, Love Is, Hair

"Alice in Walkerland: The “PBS American Masters”". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. February 10, 2014.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Falling In Love, Imagination, Free Spirit

Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.298, The New Press

Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

Moving

Alice Walker (2003). “The third life of Grange Copeland: Meridian ; The color purple”

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