What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy. Alice Walker More Quotes by Alice Walker More Quotes From Alice Walker I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think. Alice Walker can-do feels thinking Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it. Alice Walker care earth beautiful We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here. Alice Walker black heaven people To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague. Alice Walker immature should war Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly. Alice Walker buddhist greed people You're not here just to be a clone. You're not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don't have to apply. You don't even have to go there to be absolutely yourself - real, here, now, on this planet. Alice Walker planets real enough When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful. Alice Walker elders people Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug Alice Walker forgiving done evil The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass. Alice Walker money white men I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace. Alice Walker likes kind self The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea. Alice Walker color sight art it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure. Alice Walker broken joy adventure Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are. Alice Walker inspiring graduation children Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar. Alice Walker collaboration change white It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are. Alice Walker taken lying Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later. Alice Walker husband heaven thinking In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose. Alice Walker fashion order america HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity. Alice Walker web-of-life cities country Like I said...fine with me. Alice Walker fine said Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking? Alice Walker important expectations fall
