Quotes by Alice Walker

Alice Walker

American Author, Critic

Alive from: 1944-

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  All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

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  The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?
  

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  'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
  

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  Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

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  All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

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  And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

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  Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

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  Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.

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  Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

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  Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

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  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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  Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

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  Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

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  Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
  

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  Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.