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Alice Walker Quotes - Page 4

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Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

Heart, Wish, Expect Nothing

Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.134, Ballantine Books

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Life, Gratitude, Attitude

Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.142, Rutgers University Press

The artist...is the voice of the people.

Inspirational, Art, Voice

It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.

Believe, People, Needs

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.

Daughter, Mother, Teaching

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Peace, Thinking, Ubuntu

"Start With a Flower". Interview with Sharon Salzberg, www.lionsroar.com. June 10, 2017.

As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.

Realizing, Values

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Meaningful, Nature, Men

"The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery". Book by Marjorie Spiegel, Foreword, 1996.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

People, Wish, Literature

Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

Church, Found

Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.

Thinking, Temptation, Peculiar

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

You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

Heart, Broken, Open Heart

Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Dream, Dormant

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

Like Love, Giving

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.254, Hachette UK

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

Unbearable

Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 6, 2010.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Thinking, Foundation, Wonder

"Alice Walker: 'Go to the Places That Scare You'". Interview with Valerie Schloredt, www.yesmagazine.org. October 02, 2012.

I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

Unique, Self, Role Models

Alice Walker (1997). “The Same River Twice”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.

Friendship, Fashion, Silence

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.17, Hachette UK

the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat.

Determination, Prayer, Kindness

Alice Walker (2013). “Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems”, p.96, New World Library

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

Education, Ignorance, Racism

So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time; it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart.

Heart, Worry, Trying

Source: www.blackflix.com

HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

Heart, Laughing, Humour

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

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

Color, America, Long

How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.

Impact, Time On Earth, World

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.

Funny, Humorous, Church

The Color Purple (1982)

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