Alice Walker

Alice Walker

Novelist, Poet

Alice Walker is an American author and activist, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Color Purple,' which addresses themes of race, gender, and resilience.

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Born
February 9, 1944
Quotes
416
Rank
#165

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"...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve."

Believe Ideas Generosity
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"You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no end. The ending is a beginning. If you feel like that, then you accept that wherever you have to stop on this journey, you continue in some other form somewhere else."

Journey Somewhere Else Accepting
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"You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion."

Needs Opinion Certain
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"It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come."

Creativity Space Mind
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"In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them."

Fighting Race Opinion
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"I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm."

Pain War Heart
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"To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes."

Moving Eye World
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"In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence."

Baby Believe Thinking
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"All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me."

Girl Cousin Brother
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"It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land."

Country Land Earth
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"Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly."

Buddhist People Greed
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"Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known."

Eye People Forever
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"When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it."

Curious Ends Wells
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"I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?"

Eye Emotional Thinking
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"I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think."

Thinking Feels Can Do
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"You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead."

Running Crazy Walks
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"I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully."

Men People House
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"For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that."

Writing Kind Bones
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