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Alice Walker Quotes - Page 17

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I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money

I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money to keep it going. So, I learned to struggle from a very early way in a way that was truly indigenous to the South.

Struggle, School, People

Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

Light, Cost, Fierce

Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.174, New Press, The

I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?

Needs, Feels, Knows

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

Mean, Impact, Life Is

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

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

Mean, Thinking, America

"'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.

Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!

Lucky, Courageous, Poet

America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.

America, Leader, Matter

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

Book, Important, Disrespectful

Source: www.timeout.com

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

Children, Book, Writing

Source: www.blackfilm.com

Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.

Animal, Use, Just Being

Source: www.animalliberationfront.com

You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.

Artist, People, May

Source: www.blackflix.com

I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine, if you've given it your whole heart and soul. You're totally in sync with your purpose and with the universe. And that's fine.

Heart, People, Giving

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

If you don't have the ability or encouragement to use yourself in a physical way, you could become just another talking head. And talking heads run things. That's part of the reason why we're in such a sad state as a planet, because it's all about thinking, and thinking has led to a lot of aggrandizement - taking over [resources] and figuring out how you can steal and leaving people and the planet in an impoverished state.

Running, Encouragement, Thinking

You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

Thinking, People, Goes On

Source: inamerica.blogs.cnn.com

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

Lying, Taken, Traps

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

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best way to get them to read, is to read. The best way to get them to do anything is to do it yourself, and they will absolutely copy you. That way, you don't have to worry about what's supposedly age appropriate, a child will pick something up when the child is ready.

Children, Worry, Age

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

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