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Alice Walker Quotes - Page 16

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Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.

Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.

Trust, People, Matter

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

Want

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

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.

Thinking, America, Shadow

"A long walk to freedom" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2001.

God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.

Thinking, Years, People

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

We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.

Youth, Misguided, Wallowing

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult.

Yoga, Book, Reading

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

Self, Meditation, Soul

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

Fear, School, Done

Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock.

Flower, Men, Thinking

Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.31, Ballantine Books

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

Book, Likes, Duty

Source: inamerica.blogs.cnn.com

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

Writing, Sides, Jazz

I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.

Father, Taken, Night

Source: foreignpolicy.com

The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.

Mother, Children, Native American

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

Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.

Girl, Giving, Dear God

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

Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Finding Yourself, Tea, Cups

We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.

Fall, Caring, Gold

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

Confused, Greed, Humanity

Alice Walker (2013). “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness”, p.9, The New Press

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

United States, Terrorist, Afghanistan

I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

Justice, Diversity, Live Free

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.74, Hachette UK

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

Known, Felt, One Thing

I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

Country, Space, Used

The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, "Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Well, fine. But, the land there, the landscape is extraordinary. It's big lakes and beautiful hills and trees.

Beautiful, Mean, Lakes

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

I am an elder, and I am delighted to be an elder. I would like to exhibit [and] explore it more - what an elder could mean in this time. But, I'd like to show that elders are good for us - that they can be good for us.

Mean, Be Good, Shows

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

Winning, Views, Particular

"In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose". Book by Alice Walker, 1983.

Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

Rocks

Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.31, Ballantine Books

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