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Alice Walker Quotes - Page 12

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I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature.

I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature.

Thinking, Color, Appreciate

Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.103, The New Press

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Parent, Culture, Taught

Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.

Yoga, Teaching, Mean

Alice Walker (2007). “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness”, p.240, The New Press

All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.

Girl, Cousin, Brother

"The Color Purple". www.npr.org. December 16, 1985.

In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.

Fighting, Race, Opinion

Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.

Buddhist, People, Greed

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.

Eye, People, Forever

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

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.

Curious, Ends, Wells

Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.294, The New Press

One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.

Men, Air, White Man

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

It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.

Country, Land, Earth

Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.

Mirrors, Greed, Revolt

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

Writing, People, Feelings

This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.

Revolution, Scarce, Plentiful

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

Life, Dance, Flower

Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.30, Ballantine Books

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.

Baby, Believe, Thinking

"No retreat" by Sara Wajid, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2006.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

Bliss, Creation, Periods

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

Technology, Men, Peaceful

Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.289, New Press, The

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Children, Believe, Teaching

I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.

Black History, Black

Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.

Surprise, Expecting

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Evil, Who We Are, Language

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.219, Hachette UK

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

Reading, Writing, Generations

Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.20, New Press, The

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

Spiritual, Believe, Animal

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.278, Hachette UK

I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious

Bisexual, Curious

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

Curiosity, Mind, Natural

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.168, Hachette UK

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