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Alice Walker Quotes - Page 6

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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.

It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.

Spiritual, Differences, Justice

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Children, Believe, Dust

"Alice Walker: Why I'm sailing to Gaza". edition.cnn.com. June 21, 2011.

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

Children, Humanity, Care

Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.310, New Press, The

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Self, Way, Enlightened

A grown child is a dangerous thing.

Children, Dangerous, Grown Children

I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is not to attach to a teacher, but rather to find out what the real deal is in the world itself. You become your own guide. The teachings can help you, but really, we're all here with the opportunity the reality of hereness. We all have that. I trust that...I'm just not interested in labels. I find all of them constrictive. They're hard to wear. And they're hard to wear because we're always - hopefully - growing.

Faith, Teacher, Buddhist

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

Meaningful, Teaching, Circles

Alice Walker (1987). “Meridian: a novel”, Isis Large Print Books

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Planets, Activism, Living On

My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?

Hurt, Believe, Heart

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

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.

Life, Thinking, Wonder Love

The more I wonder, the more I love.

Love, Marriage, Wonder Of Life

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

Writing, Should Have, Want

Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.

Men, Self, Abortion

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation

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

It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

Age, Planets, Persons

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.207, Hachette UK

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

Mother, People, Hatred

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.132, Hachette UK

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Lonely, Freedom, Fear

Alice Walker (2011). “In Search of Our Mother's Gardens”, p.143, Hachette UK

My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

Evil, Needs, Television

God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.

God, Thinking, World

Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.28, Ballantine Books

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Purple, Feminist, Lavender

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens epigraph (1983)

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Fiction, World, Want

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

What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.

Running, Thinking, Ideas

Source: inamerica.blogs.cnn.com

Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?

Laughter, Mistake, Dark

Alice Walker (2011). “By the Light of My Father's Smile”, p.167, Hachette UK

The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.

War, Thinking, Impact

"Poet, Author Alice Walker Meets the Inner Journey with Global Activism in 'The Cushion in the Road'". Interview with Amy Goodman and Aaron Maté, www.democracynow.org. May 28, 2013.

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

Country, War, Thinking

"Alice Walker: 'Go to the Places That Scare You'". Interview with Valerie Schloredt, www.yesmagazine.org. October 2, 2012.

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