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People Quotes by Alice Walker

104 People quotes by Alice Walker

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A pillow stuffed with food, medicine, and music becomes a gentle weapon in the fight against war. Walker’s quotes call out bombing as terrorism, warn how propaganda can shape belief, and celebrate pride in African‑American culture while exposing lingering oppression. They also remind us that doors open when we knock and that support can appear from unexpected places.

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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

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Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

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I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

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Only dead people need loud music, you know.

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I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

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Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

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If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.

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The artist...is the voice of the people.

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People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's…

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Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.

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It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

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People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the…

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When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old…

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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

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I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

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Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get…

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People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The…

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In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should…

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We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for…

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Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have…

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I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of…

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In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had…

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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…

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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.…

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I'm very disappointed in Barack Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war.…

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People are called 'stars' not only because they shine... because the qualities they exemplify are... eternal. We are attracted to their sparkle,…

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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…

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Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine…

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I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by…

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It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers,…

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I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in…

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Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

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The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?

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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

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I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

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I just really love people a lot. I really love them.

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Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world.…

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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my…