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Alice Walker
American
Author
Born:
Feb 9
,
1944
Life
Me
People
Think
World
You
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
People
Power
Thinking
Way
Give
Most
Up
Any
Common
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
Alice Walker
Thankful
Best
Prayer
Gratitude
You
Understanding
Thank You
Humility
Extreme
Say
Could
Lot
Thank
Anyone
Expresses
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Alice Walker
Beautiful
Nature
Nothing
Trees
Everything
Ways
Bent
Perfect
Weird
Still
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Alice Walker
Gardening
Garden
Mother
Own
My Own
Search
Found
If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
Alice Walker
Life
Dreams
You
Fight
Emotions
Worth
Feelings
Living
Cares
Worth Living
Want
Your
Expresses
Deepest
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
Alice Walker
Rebellion
Revolution
Poetry
Lifeblood
Consciousness
Raising
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Alice Walker
God
Nature
You
Walk
Somewhere
Field
Think
Purple
Color
Off
Notice
I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.
Alice Walker
Nature
Age
Church
Universe
Everything
Spirit
Touch
Never
Feel
Felt
Understood
Very
Very Early Age
Walking
Did
Woods
Should
Early
Early Age
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
Alice Walker
Rest
Sabbath
Week
Observe
Takes
Surely
Making
Anybody
Holy
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Alice Walker
Happiness
You
Be Happy
Happy
Yourself
People
Wait
Other
Make
Around
Got
Get
Any
In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
Alice Walker
Happiness
Life
Alone
You
People
Joy
Intelligence
Rest
Become
Believe
Think
Baby
Totally
About
Korea
Leave
South
South Korea
Just
Again
Turn
Height
Should
Your
Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.
Alice Walker
People
Amazing
Believe
Propaganda
Amazing People
Led
Anything
I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
Alice Walker
Love
You
Will
Free
Fall
Imagination
Spirit
Free Spirit
Understand
Fallen
Go
Anything
Anywhere
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
Alice Walker
Women
People
World
Black
Made
Men
Animals
Own
White
More
Were
Exist
Than
Any
Created
Reasons
Humans
Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
Alice Walker
Life
Beautiful
Good
You
Care
Life Is Beautiful
Earth
Good Place
Take
Take Care
Abundant
Know
Place
This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.
Alice Walker
People
Wonderful
Money
Too Much
Power
Too
Too Much Money
Destroyed
Empathy
Being
Much
Planet
Who
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Alice Walker
Mom
Me
You
Gift
Mother
Greatest Gift
Hidden
See
Greatest
Yes
Flawed
Your
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
Alice Walker
Life
Wisdom
Family
Patience
Women
Own
Older
Active
About
Through
Sharing
Clearly
Led
Family Life
Maneuver
Elder
Us
Much
Successfully
Teach
Who
Older Women
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
Alice Walker
Creative
Flower
Our
Hoped
See
Seed
More
Could
Never
Like
Anonymously
Read
Mothers
Handed
Than
Often
Plainly
Spark
Themselves
Grandmothers
Sealed
Letter
You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.
Alice Walker
You
Just Be
Plenty
Something
Always
Doing
Just
I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious.
Alice Walker
Lesbian
Bisexual
Curious
Just
Straight
We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
Alice Walker
Believe
Our
Must
Nonviolence
Children
Much
Sanity
Teaching
Earlier
Start
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.
Alice Walker
Myself
Religion
Free
Believe
Enjoy
Earth
Admire
Spirit
Free Spirit
Buddhist
Call
Here
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice Walker
Me
Writing
Saved
Sin
Inconvenience
Violence
My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
Alice Walker
Service
Saying
Family
Me
Culture
Parents
Doing
Taught
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
Alice Walker
Purple
Feminist
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