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