127 Alice Walker Quotes for You to Enjoy

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I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her. Alice Walker

I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population. Alice Walker

Love Women Thought Segment Never Particular Any Movement Population Belonging

I don't generally read reviews. Alice Walker

Generally Read Reviews

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it. Alice Walker

People World Criticize Rather Praise Than Prefer Them

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. Alice Walker

Writing Mother Before Says Dirt Wrote Crawling Twig

It is natural to want to have a future. Alice Walker

Future Natural Want

I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly. Alice Walker

Collective Country Think Our Possibly Generally Individualism Taken Terms Very American Working Used Hard Farthest

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. Alice Walker

Tea Picnic Indoors Really English

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. Alice Walker

Family Segregation Absolute Poor Farming Lived

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine. Alice Walker

Regret Mine Perceived Any Behaviour Done May Anyone Deeply Harm

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 look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid. Alice Walker

Work Myself Day Women People Will Black Men Mirror Reflect Others One Day Look Most Provide Women And Men Afraid Even

If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were. Alice Walker

You People Own No Idea Voice Idea Were Deny Who

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too. Alice Walker

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It is important to remember yourself. Alice Walker

Yourself Remember Important

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. Alice Walker

Loneliness People Vision Gift Sometimes Radical Society Taken Been Account

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