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Alice Walker
Alice Walker
American Author
Born: Feb 9, 1944
Life Me People Think World You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. Alice Walker
Become Ways Sexuality Leads Because Self-Knowledge Us Actually Enlightened
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. Alice Walker
Mind Fears Worships Understand
Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement. Alice Walker
Women Defiance Consider Extremely Further Enslavement About Something Really Act Used Choosing Careful
June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same. Alice Walker
Time World Cancer Brilliant Poet Radical Thirty Back Furious Once Morally Adored Students Step Jordan Spoke She Frequently Were Years Led Up Friends June Did Same Died Politically Fierce Who Whom Her
Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it. Alice Walker
Life You Walk Will Looking Incredibly Stay Minutes Marvelous Almost Almost Anything Stunned Yard How Five Anything Your Lucky Even Awful Things
My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me. Alice Walker
Day Me Mother Made College Suitcase Gave Typewriter Machine Sewing Week Maid Had Bought Hours She Did Working Away
I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism. Alice Walker
War Terrorism Country Think Absurd Terror Coming Really Founded
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. Alice Walker
Power Out Powerful Nobody Make Them
People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location. Alice Walker
Time You People Live Other Location About Box Always How Label Fix Want Little Many Keep Lives Need
As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening. Alice Walker
Today Beautiful Truth Hope Truth Is People Fear Long Once Tells Still Frightening Stand Who Chance
I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life. Alice Walker
Life Live Ideal Contemplative Very Secluded
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. Alice Walker
People Fools Wish Willing Remain Foolish Foolishness Avoid Appear Appearance Actually
I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have. Alice Walker
Heart Try Want Teach Things
I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad. Alice Walker
Time Sense Think Bad Shadow Look Forced America Being Really Large
Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real. Alice Walker
Me Nobody Real Race Convinced Ever
We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal. Alice Walker
Other Must Seeing Equal Makes Existence Begin Us Creatures
I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth. Alice Walker
Myself Suffering People World Made Earth See Badly Feel Very Often Place Who Treated
We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise. Alice Walker
Confused Disguise Enemies Ourselves Must Only Adversaries Learn Us Who Actually
We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid. Alice Walker
Power Our Everything Everywhere Must Feel Makes Cease Behaviour Afraid Children
Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere. Alice Walker
Up Get Anywhere Us Sucking
It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom. Alice Walker
You Soul Women Black Older Every Think Flower Everyone Clear Cherish Cherished Bloom Get
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 hundreds of years, decimating whole communities. Alice Walker
Time Hundreds Hundreds Of Years Systematically Since Witch Healers Been Years Targeted Burned Stake Grandmothers Communities Whole
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 had a lot of money and power. Alice Walker
Religion People Money Power Living Think Earth Ways Indigenous Had Well Been Overrun Lot Forever Which Organized Organized Religion
I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish. Alice Walker
Me Culture Women Words Word Black Organic Correctly Out See Spirit Like Does Feminist Just Really Describe Expresses Now Things Need
I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. Alice Walker
Time Nature World Organic Think Tree Blackberry Self Feel Particular Like Metaphor Pine Lot Just Being Experiences Happens Again Bush Producing Use Express Now
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. Alice Walker
Time Me Father Several Constantly Bothers Longer Knowing Dearly May Them Figures Searching Found Enjoyed
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