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Alice Walker Quotes - Page 14

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No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

Mother, Song, Writing

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

It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.

Matter, Feels, Universe

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

Buddhist, Believe, Free Spirit

"Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2005.

I think I'm led by spirit. I think I'm led by a sense of what is right and what feels good to me - what I accept, what is joyful, what is positive. I see my mission, in a way, as carrying that forward - not so much by preaching, but by embodiment.

Thinking, Feel Good, Embodiment

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. What it do when it pissed off? I ast. Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

Thinking, Color, Purple

Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.

Blow, Mystery, Busy

Alice Walker (2013). “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness”, p.89, The New Press

HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.

Prayer, World, Depends

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

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

Money, Men, White

The Color Purple (1982)

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.

Lying, Taken

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Lonely, Loneliness, Taken

Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.70, The New Press

But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.

Struggle, Animal, Justice

I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.

Covering, Ancestor, Feels

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

Writing, Interesting, Violence

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

If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

Fall, Trouble, Enough

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

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

Suicide, Writing, World

Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.61, Rutgers University Press

Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.

Mean, Religion, Knows

Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.24, Ballantine Books

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

Change, White, Collaboration

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.275, Hachette UK

I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.

Thinking, Knows, I Can

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

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

Mother, Children, Gone

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

Thinking, People, Progress

Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.86, The New Press

Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, "Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?"

Mean, Thinking, Pay

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.

Children, Scary, Madness

The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.

Art, Sight, Color

Alice Walker (1994). “The Complete Stories”

The hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen to you. It's not just that you're there standing next to somebody that something bad is likely to happen to. That is a true moment of reckoning with who you really are.

Might, Next, Faces

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

Kids, Facts, Trouble

Alice Walker (1994). “The Complete Stories”

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