"People do not wish to appear foolish; to……" — Alice Walker
"People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools."
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334 Quotes by Alice Walker
Alice Walker has 334 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it,…
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- The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
- I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
- Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of…
- Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
- Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
- My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I…
- Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped,…
- I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who…
- We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
- I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to…