Author

Alice Walker

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“Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.”— Alice Walker
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“'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.”— Alice Walker
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“As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.”— Alice Walker
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“As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.”— Alice Walker
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“I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.”— Alice Walker
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“We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.”— Alice Walker
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“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”— Alice Walker
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“I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'”— Alice Walker
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“The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.”— Alice Walker
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“All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.”— Alice Walker
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“The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.”— Alice Walker
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“Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.”— Alice Walker
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“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
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“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”— Alice Walker
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“To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.”— Alice Walker
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“In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”— Alice Walker
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“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”— Alice Walker
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“Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.”— Alice Walker
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“Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.”— Alice Walker
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“All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.”— Alice Walker
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“Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.”— Alice Walker
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“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”— Alice Walker
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“Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.”— Alice Walker
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“How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.”— Alice Walker
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“I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.”— Alice Walker