To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes. Alice Walker More Quotes by Alice Walker More Quotes From Alice Walker ...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve. Alice Walker generosity believe ideas It is natural to want to have a future. Alice Walker natural want The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. Alice Walker spiritual animal believe My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this? Alice Walker hurt heart believe Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself Alice Walker fine strong-women way To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people. Alice Walker hatred mother people The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. Alice Walker dissent crime originals You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive. Alice Walker fighting running thinking (a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless. Alice Walker spirit-love moon struggle Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was. Alice Walker left-alone wanted hair ...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God. Alice Walker church god thinking HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them. Alice Walker color animal children I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish. Alice Walker feminist black doe before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed! Alice Walker new-ventures track passion Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't. Alice Walker pleasing-god god-love stuff You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion. Alice Walker certain opinion needs No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories. Alice Walker mother writing song HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long. Alice Walker fashion knowing names Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand. Alice Walker different views people You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can. Alice Walker love-yourself love-you way
