You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble. Alice Walker More Quotes by Alice Walker More Quotes From Alice Walker Resistance is the secret of joy! Alice Walker resistance secret joy Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it. Alice Walker life-is people Healing cannot be done by settling a score. Alice Walker settling done healing I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really? Alice Walker emotional eye thinking Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this! Alice Walker paradise luck facts Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling. Alice Walker yoga teaching mean I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or drinking or partying or whatever - if I couldn't get away from that, I would have a heavy heart. Alice Walker party drinking heart My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, "OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep." That's about it. Alice Walker tired sleep thinking Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. What it do when it pissed off? I ast. Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. Alice Walker purple color thinking It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come. Alice Walker creativity space mind I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion. Alice Walker free-spirit buddhist believe Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before. Alice Walker suicide writing world It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do. Alice Walker universe matter feels Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us. Alice Walker manage feelings people allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves. Alice Walker allowing freedom I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm. Alice Walker pain heart war My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker. Alice Walker virginia grandmother memories All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me. Alice Walker cousin girl brother Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin. Alice Walker cotton scared people I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do. Alice Walker who-cares people years
