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Alice Walker Quotes - Page 9

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If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.

If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.

Ancestor, Ifs

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Confused, Party, Government

it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

Adventure, Broken, Joy

before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!

Passion, New Ventures, Track

Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.145, New Press, The

Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are being constructed that some countries consider their economics healthy. Yet each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth. Just as all our possessions represent-if we cannot learn ways of sharing them-a weight and clutter that often means the faces of future generations will look up into darkness and the pressure on the Earth of "things."

Country, Mean, House

I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.

Believe, I Believe

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

Wise, Witty, Teacher

Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.74, New Press, The

He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.

Children, Men, Tree

Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Mother, Garden, Heritage

Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.114, Rutgers University Press

I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others, often art and artifacts that have been obtained by dubious means. But they also manipulate whatever it is they present to the public; hence, until Judy Chicago, in the 1970s ... few women artists were hung in any major museum. Indian artists? Artifacts only, please. Black artists? Something musical, maybe? And so forth.

Art, Mean, Museums

I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say.

Thinking, Southern, Black

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

Peace, Ubuntu, Alive

Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.100, The New Press

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

Cried, Cursed

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.56, Hachette UK

HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.

Country, Cities, Web Of Life

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

I just really love people a lot. I really love them.

People

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.

Fashion, Names, Knowing

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

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

War, Immature, Should

Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.36, New Press, The

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Love, Heart, Happy Valentines Day

Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.65, New Press, The

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

Real, Grief, Things Change

You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.

Running, Fighting, Thinking

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

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.

Country, Children, Growing Up

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

People, Very Happy, Feels

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

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

Feminist, Black, Doe

HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.

Children, Animal, Color

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

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

People, World, Culture

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

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