My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean? Alice Walker More Quotes by Alice Walker More Quotes From Alice Walker When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me. Alice Walker light darkness self The nature of this flower is to bloom. Alice Walker summer-flower flower Anything we love can be saved. Alice Walker saved We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them. Alice Walker eye hurt reality 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. Alice Walker stuff people television Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. Alice Walker brilliant revolution consciousness Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love. Alice Walker saved earth people Being happy is not the only happiness. Alice Walker I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It. Alice Walker shug found believe Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities. Alice Walker ignorance racism education I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in this culture. This culture is the noisiest culture ever, ever. I think the damage that it has done to people is in that realm of silencing them. They are overwhelmed by gadgets. They don't know what to think because they're so heavily programmed about what it is that they should want and should think. Alice Walker voice people thinking War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited. Alice Walker ubuntu war peace The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you're not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That's what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet. Alice Walker blow wind thinking You die - and this is why manmade religions don't work for so many of us. The notion that you're dead and that's the end, and they even try to contain you in coffins. They make them out of steel and stuff. But really, your journey - for all you know - is just beginning. For all I know, what you see now is just a tiny little seed. So, I may blossom into an entire - I don't know - something in the sky. Who knows where we're going? Alice Walker journey sky trying The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness. Alice Walker accommodations protect long We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it. Alice Walker accepting should attitude Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. Alice Walker flawed mom mother America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see. Alice Walker color long america If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations. Alice Walker stars moon writing It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with. Alice Walker believe people needs
