Alice Walker Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

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

  Alice Walker

  People, World, Culture

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

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Feminist, Black, Doe

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Southern, Black

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

• Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.

  Alice Walker

  Heart, People, Imagination

• I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.

  Alice Walker

  Children, People, Grandparent

• What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, People, Mexican

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

• I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in this culture. This culture is the noisiest culture ever, ever. I think the damage that it has done to people is in that realm of silencing them. They are overwhelmed by gadgets. They don't know what to think because they're so heavily programmed about what it is that they should want and should think.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

• My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

  Alice Walker

  Parent, Culture, Taught

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