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Alice Walker Quotes - Page 13

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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

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.

Children, People, Grandparent

People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.

People, Fearless, Should

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

Men, Thinking, White Man

Black Scholar, Spring 1982

Howard Zinn helped us desegregate Atlanta. That was moving because he took a lot of abuse for that. He and Staughton Lynd, a fellow professor who was also from the North, stood with us. They were certainly behind us. In fact, they often stood in front of us. This had a huge impact on me. But one of the reasons I was very careful about speaking about the relationship I had with him and Staughton was because, in a racist society, if you acknowledge a deep love for and a deep debt owed to white teachers, they tend to discredit your own parents and your own community.

Teacher, Moving, Deep Love

Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.

Hair, Left Alone, Wanted

The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

Crime, Dissent, Originals

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.131, Hachette UK

...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

God, Thinking, Church

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

Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

Luck, Paradise, Facts

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

Trying, Easy, Without God

Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.25, Ballantine Books

Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug

Evil, Forgiving, Done

In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

Fashion, Order, America

Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.79, Rutgers University Press

I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.

Heart, Mean, Light

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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.

Stones, Contradiction, Outcast

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

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

Long, Shy, Ugly

Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.55, The New Press

My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

Skins, World, Ancestor

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.

Writing, Thinking, Muse

I think I've actually returned to a kind of realism about how the world works. That's helpful. Because 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.

Taken, Men, Thinking

Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

Stubborn, Persons, Knows

Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2000.

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

Peace, Gun, Men

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Beautiful, Earth, Care

"'Democratic Womanism': Poet and Activist Alice Walker on Women Rising, Obama and the 2012 Election". "Democracy Now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 28, 2012.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

Years, People, Who Cares

I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or drinking or partying or whatever - if I couldn't get away from that, I would have a heavy heart.

Party, Drinking, Heart

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.

Stuff, God Love, Pleasing God

Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.29, Ballantine Books

We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.

People, Heaven, Black

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

People, Cotton, Scared

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

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