Alice Walker Quotes, Light Quotes, Cost Quotes

In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

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Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug

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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?

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I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious

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I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best way to get them to read, is to read. The best way to get them to do anything is to do it yourself, and they will absolutely copy you. That way, you don't have to worry about what's supposedly age appropriate, a child will pick something up when the child is ready.

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I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

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She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

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I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.

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You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.

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I'm the most stubborn person I know.

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You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.

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Like I said...fine with me.

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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.

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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

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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.

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We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.

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I think I'm led by spirit. I think I'm led by a sense of what is right and what feels good to me - what I accept, what is joyful, what is positive. I see my mission, in a way, as carrying that forward - not so much by preaching, but by embodiment.

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