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