“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”
“The trouble with our people is as soon as they get free they want to enslave themselves again.”
“What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.”
“The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.”
“Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.”
“The truest help we can render an afflicted man is to lead him to discover the wealth within himself.”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
“Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister?”
“The most important question in the world is, ‘Why is the child crying?'”
“War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all.”
“Art is the mirror, perhaps, that a desperate humanity holds to itself in an attempt to live on.”
“The whole world is held together by the unwashed hand.”
“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 more I wonder, the more I love.”
Alice Walker Quotes :
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
“Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.”
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”
“Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.”
“Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.”
“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”
“Don’t let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet.”
“It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put—without delay, and with tenderness—back where they belong.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“The pain we feel is our most reliable guide to self-knowledge.”
“Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.”
“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”
“No person is your friend who demands your silence.”
“We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away.”
“Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.”
“Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.”
“The animals of the planet are in desperate peril. Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.”
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”
“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.”
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“Healing begins where the wound was made.”
“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.”
“I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be.”
“Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.”
“How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers’ names.”
“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.”
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
“The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.”
“The way forward is with a broken heart.”
“Resistance is the secret of joy!”
“The most foreign country in the world to a man is that in which he was born.”
“I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is.”
“Part of what existence means to me is knowing the difference between what I am now and what I was then.”
“The most foreign country is within.”
“Look closely at the present you are constructing. It should look like the future you are dreaming.”
“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”
“In nature, nothing is perfect, and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”
“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
- Alice Munro Quotes
- Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
- Alexander the Great Quotes
- Alexander Pope Quotes
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.”
“I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.”
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.”
“We are the ones we have been waiting for.”
“Be nobody’s darling; Be an outcast.”
“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.”
“All history is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.”
“Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.”
“The nature of this flower is to bloom.”
“Activism is my rent for living on the planet.”