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I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is.
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fish
peaches
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Alice Walker |
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What will people say, you running off to Memphis like you don't have a house to look after? Shug say, Albert. Try to think like you got some sense. Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me. Well, say Grady, trying to bring light. A woman can't git a man if peoples talk. Shug look at me and us giggle. Then us laugh sure nuff. Then Squeak start to laugh. Then Sofia. All us laugh and laugh. Shug say, Ain't they something?..
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lesbian
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1808bf6
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God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it.
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Alice Walker |
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Shug Avery sat up in bed a little today. I wash and comb out her hair. She got the nottiest, shortest, kinkiest hair I ever saw, and I loves every strand of it.
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romance
love
afro-hair
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76d114e
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Kate thought Yolo was of the bear spirit. The bear, according to ancient people who had known bears well, was of a loyal, generous and young-loving nature. Bear mothers were the most dedicated parents imaginable. The most fierce in protecting their young; but also the most peaceful creatures when left unmolested. People with bear spirit had a certain level feel about them: they often seemed large and strong, even if they weren't particularl..
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a9ca461
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Peace": the fruit of justice done especially to the Self."
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self
peace
justice
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Alice Walker |
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7fd3ca8
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Ain't nothing wrong with Shug Avery. She just sick. Sicker than anybody I ever seen. She sicker than my mama was when she die. But she more evil than my mama and that keep her alive.
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Alice Walker |
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Life is very different when you have a good friend. I've seen people without special friends, close friends. Other men, especially. For some reason men don't often make and keep friends. This is a real tragedy, I think, because in a way, without a tight male friend, you never really are able to see yourself.
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Pagan At home in the countryside I make the decision to leave your book --overdue at the library-- face up, 'promiscuous' out in the sun. Pagan. I laugh to see this was our religion all along. Hidden even from ourselves taught early not to touch the earth. Years of white gloves straight seamed hose. 'Being good girls.' Scripture like chains. Dogma like flies.
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Alice Walker |
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Young womens no good these days, he say. Got they legs open to every Tom, Dick and Harry.
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Part of what existence means to me is knowing the difference between what I am now and what I was then. It is being capable of looking after myself intellectually as well as financially. It is being able to tell when I am being wronged and by whom. It means being awake to protect myself and the ones I love. It means being a part of the world community, and being alert to which part it is that I have joined, and knowing how to change to anot..
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Alice Walker |
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cde0bd0
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Can anything be more boring than an upper-class Englishman?
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Alice Walker |
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My fantasy life. Without it I'm afraid to exist.
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Alice Walker |
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As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my folks.
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Alice Walker |
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The heaving sickness past, her nausea gone, her bodily fluids replaced, she felt the lightness of being in the open space around her. Her walls the canyon's walls, she owned them not at all; her floor, the river beach. Her view, the heavens. It was, this freedom she was in, the longed-for cathedral of her dreams.
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If this were a courageous country, it would ask Gloria to lead it since she is sane and funny and beautiful and smart and the National Leaders we've always had are not. When I listen to her talk about women's rights children's rights men's rights I think of the long line of Americans who should have been president, but weren't. Imagine Crazy Horse as president. Sojourner Truth. John Brown. Harriet Tubman. Black Elk or Geronimo. Imagine Pre..
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politics
leadership
change
us
united-states-of-america
presidents
usa
leaders
united-states
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What she showed me was, Yes, I am Grandmother as she is; there is no separation, really, between us. And that, on this planet, Grandmother Earth, there is no higher authority. That our inseparability is why the planet will be steered to safety by Grandmother/Grandmothers or it will not be steered to safety at all.
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wisdom
grandmothers
grandmother
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Alice Walker |
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d397dd8
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One good thing bout the way he never do any work round the place, us never miss him when he gone.
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Alice Walker |
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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.
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Alice Walker |
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b2a987e
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Whoever he is, he is not worth all this. And I will never unclench my teeth long enough to tell him so.
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Alice Walker |
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fda5176
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Do not be like cows grazing watching
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Alice Walker |
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It had never occurred to me, though when you read the bible it is perfectly plain if you pay attention only to the words. It is the pictures in the bible that fool you. The pictures that illustrate the words. All of the people are white and so you just think all the people from the bible were white too. But really white white people lived somewhere else during those times. That's why the bible says that Jesus Christ had hair like lamb's woo..
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Perhaps this is simply the way it is with writers. It's when they don't see you that you matter. Because then you can belong to them in a way that permits them complete possession. You are determined by them. You are controlled. You are, generally speaking, exaggerated.
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You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed. That is correct, Senor. It is as if ideas are made of blocks. Rigid and hard. And stories are made of a gauze that is elastic. You can almost see through it, so what is beyond is tantalizing. You can't quite make it out; and because the imagination is always moving forward, you yourself are constantly stretching. Stories are t..
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Buh je v tobe a vubec ve vsech lidech. S Bohem v sobe uz na svet prichazime. Ale najde ho jen ten kdo ho hleda v sobe. Nekdy se Buh projevi i dyz ho nehledas nebo dyz nevis co vlastne hledas. Samej zal, Pane muj. Vetsinou si vsicky kvuli tomu pripadaj jak vonuce.
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Alice Walker |
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Milovany chce bejt uplne vsecko. Zpivame, tancujem, pitvorime se, davame si kytky a to vsecko v nadeji ze nas nekdo bude mit rad. Vsimla sis nekdy ze stromy delaj presne to samy co my aby na sebe upozornily? Teda az na to ze nechodej.
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Alice Walker |
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I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.
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racism
southern-writers
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She can have them, Mama," she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her."
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Alice Walker |
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Susannah was glad that, on principle, she rarely listened to men. Rarely believed, really, a word they said. No matter how much she might love them.
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Alice Walker |
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It is as if my self is hiding behind an iron door.
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Alice Walker |
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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.
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We do not admire their president. We know why the White House is white. We do not find their children irresistible; We do not agree they should inherit the earth.
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poems
poetry
us
united-states-of-america
native-americans
whites
usa
united-states
race-relations
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Then she added thoughtfully, "And that old woman that turned me off so short got down so bad in the end that she was walking on two sticks." And I knew she was thinking, though she never said it: Here I am today, my eight children healthy and grown and three of them in college and me with hardly a sick day for years. Ain't Jesus wonderful?"
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Bible say, Honor father and mother no matter what. Then after while every tune I got mad, or start to feels mad. I got sick. Felt like throwing up.Terrible feeling. Then I start to feel Nothing at all. Sofia Frown. Nothing at all? 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
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there was no sympathy for struggle that ended in defeat. Which meant there was no sympathy for struggle itself--only for "winning."
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This was my first indication of the quality I feel is most characteristic of Zora's work: racial health; a sense of black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings, a sense that is lacking in so much black writing and literature.
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You telling me God love you, and you ain't never done nothing for him? I mean, not go to church, sing in the choir, feed the preacher and all like that? But if God love me, Celie, I don't have to do all that. Unless I want to. There's a lot of other things I can do that I speck God likes. Like what? I ast. Oh, she say. I can lay back and just admire stuff. Be happy. Have a good time. Well, this sounds like blasphemy sure nuff. She say, ..
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god
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Tashi knows she is learning a way of life she will never live.
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Alice Walker |
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I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.
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Alice Walker |
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In that story I gathered up the historical and psychological threads of the life my ancestors lived, and in the writing of it I felt joy and strength and my own continuity. I had that wonderful feeling writers get sometimes, not very often, of being with a great many people, ancient spirits, all very happy to see me consulting and acknowledging them, and eager to let me know, through the joy of their presence, that, indeed, I am not alone.
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May our call be from this day onward, to all the creatures and beings of the planet who have no voice: I have come to you, for you, to be a witness to your life and to extend whatever understanding and happiness I can.
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Standing beside the river, realizing that the water of earth is recycled forever, she deeply understood this: that there are two "presents." One is of the moment. The other is of a longer moment - the "moment" that includes the history and knowledge one knows. So that, she mused, if the tears shed by the mother of Isis are now part of this river then I am somehow connected to her in this longer "present" that I am able to envision and that ..
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Alice Walker |
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She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.
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Alice Walker |
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When the missionaries got to the part bout Adam and Eve being naked, the Olinka peoples nearly bust out laughing. Especially when the missionaries tried to make them put on clothes because of this. They tried to explain to the missionaries that it was they who put Adam and Eve out of the village because they was naked. Their word for naked is white. But since they are covered by color they are not naked. They said anybody looking at a white..
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