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Time Quotes by Alice Walker

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Alice Walker sees time as a chance to dance through hard moments and to build a present that already looks like a future dream. She writes about the mix of grief and lightness, and she urges us to open our hearts, let worries go, and keep working on ourselves. Her words blend personal struggle with hopeful growth.

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Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

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“Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?”

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

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Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

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It is natural to want to have a future.

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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

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I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.

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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…

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HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.

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Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

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“Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want.”

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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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You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body…

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For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to…

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before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any…

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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that.…

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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…

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So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying]…

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June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty…

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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that.…

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People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box,…

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Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and…

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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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Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone…

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I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences…

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“Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone…

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“Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's…

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I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not…

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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our…

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Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at…

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The hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen…

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I am an elder, and I am delighted to be an elder. I would like to exhibit [and] explore it more -…

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times…

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A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as…

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I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up…

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What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is…

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“We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty…

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There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown…

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“First time I think about the world. What the world got to do with anything, I think. Then I see myself sitting…

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I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way.…

“Remember this-- say it & know it is true: Alice loves me Alice loves me and I am not blamed for this. ... she…

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“She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English.”

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

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…

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

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Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the…

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all…

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…