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Alice Walker Quotes - Page 5

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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

World, Shapes, Snowflake

Source: www.timeout.com

The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.

Jobs, Self, Evil

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.274, Hachette UK

... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.

Mother, Flower, House

Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.47, Rutgers University Press

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

Mother, Strong, Father

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

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Views, People, Different

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

Hate, War, Men

Alice Walker (1989). “The temple of my familiar”, Harcourt

I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.

Mother, Thinking, Earth

Source: inamerica.blogs.cnn.com

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

Israel, People, Territory

"Letter from Alice Walker to Publishers at Yediot Books". www.pacbi.org. June 9, 2012.

My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

Mother, Writing, Thinking

Source: www.timeout.com

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Death, Inspirational Life, Believe

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.156, Hachette UK

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

Spiritual, Believe, People

Possessing the Secret of Joy epigraph (1992) See Ricciardi 1; AliceWalker 9

Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself

Strong Women, Way, Fine

Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.318, The New Press

The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you're not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That's what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet.

Blow, Thinking, Wind

Source: electronicintifada.net

It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.

Creativity, Space, Mind

She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.

People, Swiftness, Spirit

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Fiction”, p.397, Hachette UK

You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.

Needs, Opinion, Certain

Alice Walker (2013). “The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendo”, p.71, The New Press

Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

Progress, Revolution

Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

People, Trustworthy, Peril

Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.222, The New Press

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

God, Experience, Possibility

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

Years, Able, Richness

Alice Walker (2012). “The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart”, p.182, Ballantine Books

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

Freedom, Allowing

Alice Walker (2011). “Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel”, p.71, Seven Stories Press

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

Justice, One Day, Firsts

Alice Walker (1996). “Alice Walker Banned”

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Patience, Family Life, Teach

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Literature, World, Levels

Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.

Teacher, Cooks

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