Alice Walker Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

• Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

  Alice Walker

  Life, Dance, Flower

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.30, Ballantine Books

• As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
  As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.

  Alice Walker

  Giving Up, Spring, Flower

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.194, The New Press

• War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

  Alice Walker

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.278, Hachette UK

• Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

  Alice Walker

  Like Love, Giving

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.254, Hachette UK

• I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine, if you've given it your whole heart and soul. You're totally in sync with your purpose and with the universe. And that's fine.

  Alice Walker

  Heart, People, Giving

  "Alice in Walkerland!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

• Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone there who is taking the time to tell you a story that has great meaning to them. They're taking the time to do this because your life could use some help, but they don't want to come over and just give advice. They want to give it to you in a form that becomes inseparable from your whole self. That's what stories do. Stories differ from advice in that, once you get them, they become a fabric of your whole soul. That is why they heal you.

  Alice Walker

  Real, Healing, Self

• The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

  Alice Walker

  Money, Men, White

  The Color Purple (1982)

• Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.

  Alice Walker

  Girl, Giving, Dear God

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

• I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.

  Alice Walker

  Daughter, Mother, Teaching

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