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Alice Walker - From the Authority category:
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Colour category:
- The Color Purple...
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Colour category:
HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Contentment category:
HELPED are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Creativity category:
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Criticism category:
Criticism is painful when it's not done with love. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Critics category:
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Danger category:
- The Color Purple...
A grown child is a dangerous thing. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Desire category:
I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Earth category:
HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Eccentricity category:
Be nobody's darling; / Be an outcast. / Take the contradictions / Of your life / And wrap around / You like a shawl, / To parry stones / To keep you warm. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Fashion category:
HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Fear category:
HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Freedom category:
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Friendship category:
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Future category:
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Gender category:
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Goodness category:
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. 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? (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Happiness category:
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Humanity category:
HELPED are those who love the lesbian, the gay, and the straight, as they love the sun, the moon, and the stars. None of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Humour category:
HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Insecurity category:
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Journey category:
It is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Loneliness category:
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Magic category:
HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Patriotism category:
HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Perfection category:
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Pets category:
Horses make a landscape look beautiful. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Possessions category:
You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Power category:
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Prayer category:
HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Questions category:
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Religion category:
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Religion category:
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Searching category:
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Success category:
We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful... We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Suffering category:
Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Teaching category:
I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers... (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Understanding category:
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Universe category:
HELPED are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Wonder category:
I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering 'bout the big things and asking 'bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Worry category:
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor its coming with all my heart. (Alice Walker)
Alice Walker - From the Writing category:
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. (Alice Walker)
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