63 result(s) for Alice Walker Quotes.
"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful."
"Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors."
"Respect is a two-way street, if you want to get it, you've got to give it."
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites or women for men."
"The more I wonder, the more I love."
"It is healthier, I think, to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror."
"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes."
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"The sweetness of dogs (and children) is that they are so willing to accept us just as we are."
"All history is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world."
"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for?"
"Activism is my rent for living on the planet."
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
"The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen."
"The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'"
"In search of my mother's garden, I found my own."
"Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet."
"The quietly pacifist peacemakers are being pecked to death by ducks."
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"I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not, I will give you a sun check, a rain check."
"It is healthier, I have found, to think of writing as a celebration."
"Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming."
"I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is."
"Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister?"
"Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair."
"Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week."
"People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools."
"Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be."
"Who wants to be a mere mortal when one can be an artist?"
"Resistance is the secret of joy!"
"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men."
"To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods."
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"I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything."
"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are."
"I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is being conscious of living."
"I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!"
"I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves."
"We should learn to live and love every being within the world of our culture as an aspect of ourselves."
"The glory of the world would be fresh once more."
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites, or women for men."
"Relaxation is who you are. Stress is who you think you should be."
"Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister."
"There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is loveable."
"It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower is to bloom."
"I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart."
"I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation."
"The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout."
"When the ax came into the forest, the trees said, 'The handle is one of us.'"
"What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears."
"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it."
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."
"Hard times require furious dancing."
"The nature of this flower is to bloom."
"Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence."
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
"The quietly pacifist peacemakers are the ones that really change the world."
"I have fallen in love with the imagination. The body wants to dance, see, write. When I am feeling feverish, I write. It's the only cure."
"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening."
"We are the ones we have been waiting for."
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