Alice Walker — American Author born on February 09, 1944,
Alice Malsenior Walker is an American author and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also wrote Meridian and The Third Life of Grange Copeland among other works... (wikipedia)
Alice Walker Quotes
1. Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
2. The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
3. Too much respect for people who are not respectful to you is a sure sign of insecurity.
4. In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.
5. I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
6. Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as superior knowledge in all too many universities.
7. How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
8. Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.
9. Every stitch I sew will be a kiss.
10. The more I wonder, the more I love.
11. For, in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
12. In wondering 'bout the big things and asking 'bout the big things, you learn about the little ones almost by accident.
13. Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
14. It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it’s pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
15. Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.
16. I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine.
17. Everything want to be loved.
18. The most healthy thing is to be true to your own self, but also, that you have a right to express what you see and what you feel and what you think. To be bold.
19. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.
20. You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.
21. You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.
22. I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor its coming with all my heart.
23. My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
24. There is so much we don’t understand. And so much unhappiness comes because of that.
25. You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself.
26. A grown child is a dangerous thing.
27. Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
28. I love his dear eyes in which the vulnerability and beauty of his soul can be plainly read.
29. You're totally in sync with your purpose and with the universe. And that's fine.
30. And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan.
31. Wish for nothing larger than your own small heart.
32. Even if you don't make it, you're fine, if you've given it your whole heart and soul.
33. The years have come and gone without a single word from you. Only the sky above us do we hold in common. I look at it often as if, somehow, reflected from its immensities, I will one day find myself gazing into your eyes.
34. Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.