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Alice Walker

United States writer (born in 1944). Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple.

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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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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying'

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Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception.

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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.

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Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

– Alice Walker

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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

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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.

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Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short of urge to plead Then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart Or greater than a star; Tame wild disappointment With caress unmoved and cold Make of it a parka For your soul. Discover the reason why So tiny human midget Exists at all So scared unwise But expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise.

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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.

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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.

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I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.

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In order to be able to live in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

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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.

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It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.

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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

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She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

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

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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

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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

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I knew they weren't gonna do much with it when Quincy Jones (who was one of the film's producers) said, 'You know that kiss? (Director Steven Spielberg) is gonna make it very tasteful,' so I thought, 'umm OK.'.

– Alice Walker

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So I thought, 'umm OK.'.

– Alice Walker

Found on CNN 8 years ago

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