Alice Walker Quotes, Mean Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, "Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?"

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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

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All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

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You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.

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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

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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 write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

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One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.

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I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

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The hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen to you. It's not just that you're there standing next to somebody that something bad is likely to happen to. That is a true moment of reckoning with who you really are.

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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.

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But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

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You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

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HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.

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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.

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

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You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.

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