Tag: Alice Walker
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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
Alice Walker
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I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.
Alice Walker
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I don’t generally read reviews.
Alice Walker
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Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.
Alice Walker
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At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.
Alice Walker
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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
Alice Walker
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If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
Alice Walker
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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
Alice Walker
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You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.
Alice Walker
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I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.
Alice Walker