“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”
“Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.”
“Activism is my rent for living on the planet.”
“The most foreign country is within.”
“I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit.”
“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”
“Art is the mirror, perhaps, that a desperate humanity holds to itself in an attempt to live on.”
“Part of what existence means to me is knowing the difference between what I am now and what I was then.”
“The pain we feel is our most reliable guide to self-knowledge.”
“The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.”
“Resistance is the secret of joy!”
“It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.”
“Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.”
“I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.”
“We are the ones we have been waiting for.”
“It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.”
“The most foreign country in the world to a man is that in which he was born.”
“The nature of this flower is to bloom.”
“Love is not concerned with whom you pray or where you slept the night you ran away from home. Love is concerned that the beating of your heart should kill no one.”
“What I know for sure is that all the sacrifice and challenges we face are worth it if we can be happy and healthy at the end of the day.”
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”
“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.”
“Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
“Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.”
“Look closely at the present you are constructing. It should look like the future you are dreaming.”
“Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.”
“We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away.”
“How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers’ names.”
“I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way. I can’t apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to.”
“In nature, nothing is perfect, and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”
“All history is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.”
“Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.”
“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”
“What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.”
“Healing begins where the wound was made.”
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
“I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be.”
“Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister?”
“The way forward is with a broken heart.”
“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.”
“Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.”
“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”
“The more I wonder, the more I love.”
“Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.”
“Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.”
“Be nobody’s darling; Be an outcast.”
“The whole world is held together by the unwashed hand.”
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“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.”
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”
“Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.”
“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”
“It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put—without delay, and with tenderness—back where they belong.”
“Don’t let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet.”
“The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.”
- Alice Munro Quotes
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“The trouble with our people is as soon as they get free they want to enslave themselves again.”
“The truest help we can render an afflicted man is to lead him to discover the wealth within himself.”
“No person is your friend who demands your silence.”
Alice Walker Quotes :
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
“The most important question in the world is, ‘Why is the child crying?'”
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.”
“War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all.”
“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.”
“The animals of the planet are in desperate peril. Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.”
“I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is.”