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Alice Walker Quotes - Page 3

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Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.

Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.

Thinking, Knows

Source: electronicintifada.net

Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

Criticism, Done, Painful

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Revolution, Brilliant, Consciousness

Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.236, New Press, The

Anything we love can be saved.

Saved

Alice Walker (2003). “A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings”, Random House Incorporated

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

God, Faith, Capacity

Alice Walker (1994). “The Complete Stories”

It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.

Believe, Fall, Hero

Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.15, Ballantine Books

I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.

Thinking, Feels, Can Do

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in this culture. This culture is the noisiest culture ever, ever. I think the damage that it has done to people is in that realm of silencing them. They are overwhelmed by gadgets. They don't know what to think because they're so heavily programmed about what it is that they should want and should think.

Thinking, Voice, People

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.

Hurt, Eye, Reality

I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

People, Mad, Waste

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

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

People, Life Is

Alice Walker (1994). “The Complete Stories”

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Peace, War, Ubuntu

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.278, Hachette UK

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

People, Television, Stuff

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.

Saying Goodbye, Letting You Go, Letting Go And Moving On

I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life; I've come too far to be a pessimist.

Humanity, Pessimist

"Alice Walker discusses two new collections". Interview with Kevin Nance, articles.chicagotribune.com. July 12, 2013.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Leadership, Peace, Powerful

Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.127, Rutgers University Press

Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.

Believe, People, Propaganda

"Alice Walker discusses two new collections". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. July 12, 2013.

It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible.

Wise, Ocean, Men

Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.52, Ballantine Books

Healing cannot be done by settling a score.

Healing, Done, Settling

Alice Walker (2004). “Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart: A Novel”, p.88, Random House

You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.

Love, Stolen

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

You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no end. The ending is a beginning. If you feel like that, then you accept that wherever you have to stop on this journey, you continue in some other form somewhere else.

Journey, Somewhere Else, Accepting

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

Heart, Trying, Literature

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

Pain, People, Unity

Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.319, New Press, The

If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

Stars, Writing, Moon

Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.85, The New Press

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Life, Art, Book

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