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Love Quotes by Alice Walker

59 Love quotes by Alice Walker

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Alice Walker sees love as a force that can’t be stopped, like a plant pushing through stone toward the sun. She talks about love as a revolution that values both abundance and scarcity. Her words also link love to a deep, good‑heartedness that grows from heritage and strength.

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Fear is real, but so is love.

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The more I wonder, the more I love.

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Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

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There is no graceful way to carry hatred.

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Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.

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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

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You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.

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

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I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

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You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

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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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You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.

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This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.

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As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.

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“Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.”

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HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.

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“Sighing, Irene said, Why is it that we can love so much that which only makes us cry? Susannah thought for only…

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(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves…

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“She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Feverish. And mean. Like,…

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“Loving humans means writing poems & songs novels & plays, slogans, chants & protest signs our critics want to stone us for…

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Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students…

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I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around…

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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty…

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Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with…

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“When we have pleaded for understanding, our character has been distorted; when we have asked for simple caring, we have been handed…

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“...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the…

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Love yourself. Just love yourself. In fact, the love of the self cures every kind of problem you have with yourself. For…

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“HELPED are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery…

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“When it is all too much; when the news is so bad meditation itself feels useless, and a single life feels too…

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“once there was a beautiful young panther who had a co-wife and a husband. Her name was Lara and she was unhappy…

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I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to…

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“Shug: More than anything God love admiration. Celie: You saying God is vain? Shug: No, not vain, just wanting to share a…

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“Great Literature is help for humans. It is medicine of the highest order. In a more aware culture, writers would be considered…

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“Oh, she say. God loves all them feelings. That's some of the best stuff God did. And when you know God loves…

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Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.…

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It's not possible to stop love.

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“Choose someone to love who wouldn’t even hear of it.”

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Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.

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Anything we love can be saved.

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You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.

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