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45 Alice Walker Quotes & Sayings
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45 Alice Walker Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 9 February 1944 |
Novelist
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Writer
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Poet
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Activist
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
No person
Your friend
Demands
Your silence
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
Common way
People
Give up
Power
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
Alice Walker
Animals
The world
Exist
Own reasons
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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.
Alice Walker
Bad person
Write
Good book
Us better
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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
Alice Walker
What
Mind
Doesn't understand
It worships
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
Alice Walker
Men
Make wars
Get attention
All killing
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Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
Alice Walker
Times moves
Slowly
Passes quickly
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I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
Alice Walker
Have learned
To worry
About love
Honor
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Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
Alice Walker
Look closely
The present
Constructing
The future
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I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.
Alice Walker
The waste
Happen
People
Who love
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We are the ones we have been waiting for
Alice Walker
The ones
Have been
Waiting for
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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
Alice Walker
Life descends
The pit
Own candle
Willingly burning
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A grown child is a dangerous thing.
Alice Walker
Grown child
Dangerous thing
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The more I wonder, the more I love.
Alice Walker
The more
I wonder
I love
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People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
Alice Walker
People think
God care
Fool living
The world
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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Alice Walker
Nobody
As powerful
Make them
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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Alice Walker
People
Wish
Appear foolish
Avoid
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walker
Life
Better.than death
Believe
Less boring
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Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.
Alice Walker
The earth
Be saved
The people
Who insist
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Everything want to be loved.
Alice Walker
Everything want
Be loved
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You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.
Alice Walker
Must learn
Love
Be stolen
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The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men
Alice Walker
The world
Changing
No longer
For boys
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It is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
Alice Walker
Broken road
Pitfalls
Sharp turns
Unexpected traverses
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Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.
Alice Walker
Some people
Don't understand
The nature
Seen forever
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We do not believe in heaven or hell...; we do not believe in eternal damnation. We believe only in the unavoidable horror of hurting others and of likewise being hurt.
Alice Walker
Believe
In heaven
Hell
Eternal damnation
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Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.
Alice Walker
Have faith
Your consciousness
Be communicated
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice Walker
Writing
Saved me
The sin
Inconvenience
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The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory
Alice Walker
Only way
Solace
Who loved
In life
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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
Alice Walker
Anybody
Can observe
Holy
Takes
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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
Alice Walker
The animals
Planet
Desperate peril
Life
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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
Alice Walker
Silent
Long time
People
Just arrive
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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world
Alice Walker
Heart
Always breaking
Through
Broken window
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But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain
Alice Walker
Easy
To do
Without God
Strain
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I love his dear eyes in which the vulnerability and beauty of his soul can be plainly read.
Alice Walker
I love
Dear eyes
Vulnerability
Beauty
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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
Alice Walker
My heart
Hurt
Believe
Keep beating
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We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to hand
Alice Walker
Have
Start somewhere
Do better
Hand
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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice Walker
Art
Make us
Better
What
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If you lie to yourself about your own pain, you will be killed by those who will claim you enjoyed it.
Alice Walker
You lie
Own pain
Be killed
Will claims
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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
Alice Walker
Writing poems
Celebrating
The world
Committed suicide
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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
Alice Walker
Now how
Fight
Stay alive
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Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.
Alice Walker
Any woman
What people
Think
Mystery
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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.
Alice Walker
So clear
You are
So certain
Just right
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A burnt finger remember the fire.
Alice Walker
Burnt finger
Remember
The fire
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Too much respect for people who are not respectful to you is a sure sign of insecurity.
Alice Walker
Too much
Respect
For people
Sure sign
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Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
Alice Walker
Women
Summon courage
Fulfill
Dormant dreams
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Alice Walker Quotes & Sayings