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Alice Walker Quotes - Page 11

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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.

Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.

Purple, Trying, Want

"Fictional character: Shug Avery". "The Color Purple", www.imdb.com. December 16, 1985.

You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.

Running, Crazy, Walks

Alice Walker (2013). “Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems”, p.20, New World Library

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

Men, People, House

Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.207, New Press, The

It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period

Mean, Men, Long

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

It is natural to want to have a future.

Want, Natural

"Alice Walker: 'Go to the Places That Scare You'". Interview with Valerie Schloredt, www.yesmagazine.org. October 2, 2012.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Mother, Parenting, Garden

"In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" (1974)

I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

People, Focus, Criticism

Source: www.timeout.com

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.308, Feminist Press at CUNY

What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.

Waiting, Gardening, Fruit

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

In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.

Jobs, Taken, Men

"Alice in Walkerland!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.

Memories, Grandmother, Virginia

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.65, Hachette UK

Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone there who is taking the time to tell you a story that has great meaning to them. They're taking the time to do this because your life could use some help, but they don't want to come over and just give advice. They want to give it to you in a form that becomes inseparable from your whole self. That's what stories do. Stories differ from advice in that, once you get them, they become a fabric of your whole soul. That is why they heal you.

Real, Healing, Self

You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.

Love You, Love Yourself, Way

Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.216, The New Press

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.

Moving, Eye, World

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.

Thinking, Forever, Earth

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

Fighting, Alive, Know How

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

Resistance is the secret of joy!

Joy, Secret, Resistance

Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) See Ricciardi 1; AliceWalker 8

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Understanding, Add, Movement

Alice Walker (2011). “In Search of Our Mother's Gardens”, p.267, Hachette UK

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Writing, Violence, Sin

Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.108, Rutgers University Press

I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.

Pain, War, Heart

I want something else; a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism. Notice how this word has "man" right in the middle of it? That's one reason I like it. He is right there, front and center. But he is surrounded. I want to vote and work for a way of life that honors the feminine.

Men, Years, Honor

Source: inamerica.blogs.cnn.com

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?

Eye, Emotional, Thinking

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

The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

Wise, Earth Day, Given

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.256, Hachette UK

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

Religious, Children

Source: electronicintifada.net

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