Alice Walker Quotes

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• In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able…
• It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't…
• 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 the perfection. What's to worry…
• 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 chose to keep and to…
• Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by…
• I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth…
• 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 bear. It's the same with…
• My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
• You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet...…
• Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
• The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all…
• The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive…
• Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
• I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
• I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a…

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