Alice Walker Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• 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. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.

  Alice Walker

  Pain, Mean, Fighting

  Alice Walker (2011). “Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990”, p.87, Hachette UK

• If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

  Alice Walker

  Dream, Fighting, Feelings

  "Alice Walker: 'Go to the Places That Scare You'". Interview with Valerie Schloredt, www.yesmagazine.org. October 02, 2012.

• All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.

  Alice Walker

  Girl, Cousin, Brother

  "The Color Purple". www.npr.org. December 16, 1985.

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Running, Fighting, Thinking

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

• But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

  Alice Walker

  Fighting, Alive, Know How

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

• In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.

  Alice Walker

  Fighting, Race, Opinion

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