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Alice Walker Quotes - Page 8

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HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.

HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.

Fear Of Death, Blades, Grass

Alice Walker (2013). “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness”, p.91, The New Press

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.

Understanding, Triumph, Way

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

Thinking, Evil, Joy

Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.23, Ballantine Books

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Responsibility, Care, Planets

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

People, Jokes

Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.15, New Press, The

You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed. That is correct, Señor. It is as if ideas are made of blocks. Rigid and hard. And stories are made of a gauze that is elastic. You can almost see through it, so what is beyond is tantalizing. You can't quite make it out; and because the imagination is always moving forward, you yourself are constantly stretching. Stories are the way spirit is exercised.

Block, Moving, Ideas

You die - and this is why manmade religions don't work for so many of us. The notion that you're dead and that's the end, and they even try to contain you in coffins. They make them out of steel and stuff. But really, your journey - for all you know - is just beginning. For all I know, what you see now is just a tiny little seed. So, I may blossom into an entire - I don't know - something in the sky. Who knows where we're going?

Journey, Sky, Trying

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

People are called 'stars' not only because they shine... because the qualities they exemplify are... eternal. We are attracted to their sparkle, their warmth, their light, but they will be forever distant from us. So distant we can never quite believe our inseparability. Never quite believe that we are also composed of the light they have.

Stars, Believe, Light

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

I'm very disappointed in Barack Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks. I cannot support his caving in to Benjamin Netanyahu. I think many black people support him because they're so happy to have handsome black man in the White House. But it doesn't make me happy if that handsome black man in the White House is betraying all of our traditional values of peace, peoplehood, caring about strangers, feeding the hungry, and not bombing children.

Children, War, Caring

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

Long, People, Mind

As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.

Men, Thinking, Color

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. Watch the people succumb To madness With ample cheer; Let them look askance at you And you askance reply. Be an outcast; Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool) Or line the crowded River beds With other impetuous Fools. Make a merry gathering On the bank Where thousands perished For brave hurt words They said. Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Qualified to live Among your dead.

Hurt, Cheer, Rivers

Alice Walker (2011). “Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990”, p.115, Hachette UK

The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.

Animal, World, Sanctuary

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Sister, Inspiring, Sibling

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

Country, Ghetto, Thinking

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

During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.

Believe, Years, People

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Inspiring, Mother, Simple

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

Animal, Pet, Ignored

Alice Walker (1996). “Alice Walker Banned”

Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

Self, Twins, Natural

Alice Walker (1997). “The Same River Twice”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

Writing, Hatred, Littles

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.62, Hachette UK

We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.

Children, People, Genius

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.

Spring, Years, Long

Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.194, The New Press

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

Dream, Faithful, Unexpected

Alice Walker (1991). “Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems, 1965-1990 Complete”, Harcourt

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

Mean, Selling Things, Buying

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

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Inspirational, Creativity, Godly

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

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