People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms. Alice Walker More Quotes by Alice Walker More Quotes From Alice Walker War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed? Alice Walker iraq war country Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there. Alice Walker peculiar temptation thinking I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. Alice Walker religious god inspiring I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame. Alice Walker writing long thinking As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women. Alice Walker color men thinking I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life. Alice Walker vegetarianism real soul I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read. Alice Walker should-have want writing During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that. Alice Walker believe people years I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers. Alice Walker circles teaching meaningful What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are. Alice Walker mexican people thinking I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left. Alice Walker care humanity children Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone. Alice Walker outcast walks I'm very disappointed in Barack Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks. I cannot support his caving in to Benjamin Netanyahu. I think many black people support him because they're so happy to have handsome black man in the White House. But it doesn't make me happy if that handsome black man in the White House is betraying all of our traditional values of peace, peoplehood, caring about strangers, feeding the hungry, and not bombing children. Alice Walker caring war children I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly. Alice Walker ghetto country thinking The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory Alice Walker life-is memories way He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man. Alice Walker tree men children Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own. Alice Walker heritage garden mother It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try. Alice Walker dust believe children 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. Alice Walker freedom lonely fear Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams. Alice Walker faithful unexpected dream
