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Alice Walker Quotes - Page 10

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You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.

You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.

Heart

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

War, Air, Water

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.

Prayer, Children, Animal

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

HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.

Magic, Delight, Astonishment

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

...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.

Believe, Ideas, Generosity

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

Laughing

Alice Walker (2013). “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness”, p.15, The New Press

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.

Family, Mother, Flower

Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.47, Rutgers University Press

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

People, Elders

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

Hurt, Misunderstood, Being Misunderstood

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, "OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep." That's about it.

Tired, Sleep, Thinking

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Tea, Picnics, Beverages

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

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

People, Infinite, Justified

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Home, Literature

You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

Wisdom, Confused, Church

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.

Women, Famous Inspirational, Flower

Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.

Laughter, Suffering, Tears

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.

Past, Race, Talking

"Obama is the change that America has tried to hide" by Alice Walker, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2008.

Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

Hurt, Causes, Terrible

Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.

Dog, Needs, Body

Alice Walker (1997). “The Same River Twice”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

Children, Writing, Criticism

Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

Responsibility, Artist, World

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

Men, Mirrors, Self

There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.

Struggle, Alive, Vivid

Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.15, Ballantine Books

human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.

Children, Animal, Adults

Alice Walker (1996). “Alice Walker Banned”

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.

Writing, Kind, Bones

"Alice Walker Offers Advice on Writing". Interview with Jessica Strawser, www.writersdigest.com. August 31, 2010.

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