Alice Walker Quotes - Page 17

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• Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

  Alice Walker

  Rocks

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.31, Ballantine Books

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• In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

  Alice Walker

  Winning, Views, Particular

  "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose". Book by Alice Walker, 1983.

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• In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

  Alice Walker

  Light, Cost, Fierce

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.174, New Press, The

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• I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?

  Alice Walker

  Needs, Feels, Knows

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

  Alice Walker

  Mean, Impact, Life Is

  "No retreat" by Sara Wajid, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2006.

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• I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

  Alice Walker

  Mean, Thinking, America

  "'Democratic Womanism': Poet and Activist Alice Walker on Women Rising, Obama and the 2012 Election". "Democracy Now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 28, 2012.

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• Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!

  Alice Walker

  Lucky, Courageous, Poet

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• America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.

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  America, Leader, Matter

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• 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.

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• If you don't have the ability or encouragement to use yourself in a physical way, you could become just another talking head. And talking heads run things. That's part of the reason why we're in such a sad state as a planet, because it's all about thinking, and thinking has led to a lot of aggrandizement - taking over [resources] and figuring out how you can steal and leaving people and the planet in an impoverished state.

  Alice Walker

  Running, Encouragement, Thinking

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• It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.

  Alice Walker

  Lying, Taken, Traps

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

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• I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

  Alice Walker

  Book, Important, Disrespectful

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

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  Children, Book, Writing

  Source: www.blackfilm.com

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• Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.

  Alice Walker

  Animal, Use, Just Being

  Source: www.animalliberationfront.com

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• You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

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  Thinking, People, Goes On

  Source: inamerica.blogs.cnn.com

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• I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best way to get them to read, is to read. The best way to get them to do anything is to do it yourself, and they will absolutely copy you. That way, you don't have to worry about what's supposedly age appropriate, a child will pick something up when the child is ready.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Worry, Age

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

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