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"45 Alice Walker Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 9 February 1944 | Novelist | Writer | Poet | Activist |

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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.

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.

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.

Bad person Write Good book Us better
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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

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.

Men Make wars Get attention All killing
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Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

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.

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.

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.

The waste Happen People Who love
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We are the ones we have been waiting for

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.

Life descends The pit Own candle Willingly burning
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A grown child is a dangerous thing.

Grown child Dangerous thing
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The more I wonder, the more I love.

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.

People think God care Fool living The world
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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

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.

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.

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.

The earth Be saved The people Who insist
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Everything want to be loved.

Everything want Be loved
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You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.

Must learn Love Be stolen
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The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

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.

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.

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.

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.

Have faith Your consciousness Be communicated
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

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

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.

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.

The animals Planet Desperate peril Life
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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

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

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

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.

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?

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

Have Start somewhere Do better Hand
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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

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.

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.

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.

Now how Fight Stay alive
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Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.

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.

So clear You are So certain Just right
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A burnt finger remember the fire.

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.

Too much Respect For people Sure sign
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Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Women Summon courage Fulfill Dormant dreams
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Alice Walker Quotes & Sayings