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One Quotes by Alice Walker
- 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...…
- One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the…
- 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
- For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be…
- Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
- The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
- It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
- I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.
- Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
- You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.
- At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a…
- All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not…
- In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will…
- I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert…
- One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air…
- When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
- How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
- I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.
- How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the…
- I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.
- One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a…
- One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle