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Alice Walker Quotes - Page 15

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I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

Voice, Black, Listening

The Color Purple (1982)

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

Wisdom, Hair, Understanding

Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

Expendables, Billions, Humans

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?

Country, Children, Intelligent

You're not here just to be a clone. You're not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don't have to apply. You don't even have to go there to be absolutely yourself - real, here, now, on this planet.

Real, Enough, Planets

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

Fall, Expectations, Important

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

Knowledge, Thinking, Glad

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

I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.

Children, Real, Thinking

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

Boys, Men, World

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Fiction”, p.362, Hachette UK

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

Writing, Poet, Novel

What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.

Mean, Grandmother, Artist

Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.41, Rutgers University Press

Only dead people need loud music, you know.

Music, People, Needs

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

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Want, Knows

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

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

Thinking, Race, Survivor

How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.

God, Nature, Mind

Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.134, New Press, The

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

Men, Delight, Enough

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

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only enough. Stop short of the urge to plead, then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger than your own small heart or greater than a star. Tame wild disappointment with caress, unmoved and cold. Make of it a parka for your soul. Discover the reason why so tiny human midget exists at all, so scared and so unwise. But expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Stars, Disappointment, Heart

"Anything We Love Can Be Saved". Book by Alice Walker, June, 1997.

I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.

Self, Likes, Kind

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

This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

Heaven, Way, Lasts

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

Like I said...fine with me.

Said, Fine

Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

Book, Reading, World

Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.

People, Feelings, Manage

Source: www.chicagotribune.com

Abortion is an act of self-defense.

Self, Abortion, Defense

Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.

Husband, Thinking, Heaven

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Fiction”, p.306, Hachette UK

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.

Ifs

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

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