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Been Quotes by Alice Walker
- 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 write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.
- As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will…
- The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
- The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
- I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally…
- Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write…
- It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the…
- Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has…
- For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The…
- I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of…
- we are the ones we have been waiting for
- Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never…
- In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off…
- I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.
- Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for…
- Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.
- I think America has always been polarized.
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour