I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us. Alice Walker More Quotes by Alice Walker More Quotes From Alice Walker You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead. Alice Walker crazywalksrunning Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have. Alice Walker like-lovegiving What you hope for, you also fear. Alice Walker Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet. Alice Walker ubuntualivepeace People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really. Alice Walker fearlessshouldpeople Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. Watch the people succumb To madness With ample cheer; Let them look askance at you And you askance reply. Be an outcast; Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool) Or line the crowded River beds With other impetuous Fools. Make a merry gathering On the bank Where thousands perished For brave hurt words They said. Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Qualified to live Among your dead. Alice Walker cheerhurtrivers The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are. Alice Walker white-manmenthinking Howard Zinn helped us desegregate Atlanta. That was moving because he took a lot of abuse for that. He and Staughton Lynd, a fellow professor who was also from the North, stood with us. They were certainly behind us. In fact, they often stood in front of us. This had a huge impact on me. But one of the reasons I was very careful about speaking about the relationship I had with him and Staughton was because, in a racist society, if you acknowledge a deep love for and a deep debt owed to white teachers, they tend to discredit your own parents and your own community. Alice Walker deep-loveteachermoving I'm the most stubborn person I know. Alice Walker stubbornpersonsknows In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid. Alice Walker mirrorsselfmen The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. Alice Walker peacefultechnologymen The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that. Church just could not hold my spirit. Alice Walker motherchildrenthinking I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others, often art and artifacts that have been obtained by dubious means. But they also manipulate whatever it is they present to the public; hence, until Judy Chicago, in the 1970s ... few women artists were hung in any major museum. Indian artists? Artifacts only, please. Black artists? Something musical, maybe? And so forth. Alice Walker museumsmeanart How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns. Alice Walker gunmenpeace Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved. Alice Walker purplewanttrying It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period Alice Walker menlongmean Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly. Alice Walker terriblecauseshurt human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember. Alice Walker adultsanimalchildren There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace. Alice Walker vividalivestruggle Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power. Alice Walker earthforeverthinking
