Alice Walker Quotes, Mother Quotes, Garden Quotes

Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

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I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

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I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.

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I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.

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You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no end. The ending is a beginning. If you feel like that, then you accept that wherever you have to stop on this journey, you continue in some other form somewhere else.

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Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult.

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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.

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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

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Anything we love can be saved.

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I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

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The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.

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Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

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My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.

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I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.

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I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in this culture. This culture is the noisiest culture ever, ever. I think the damage that it has done to people is in that realm of silencing them. They are overwhelmed by gadgets. They don't know what to think because they're so heavily programmed about what it is that they should want and should think.

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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

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It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.

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