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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fddf7d7 | 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.. | Alice Walker | ||
| ab03e43 | 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. | Alice Walker | ||
| 376a66f | 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.. | Alice Walker | ||
| 2fabe9c | 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. | Alice Walker | ||
| a8c569f | 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. | Alice Walker | ||
| a7881a7 | I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together. | racism southern-writers | Alice Walker | |
| 44f4838 | She can have them, Mama," she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her." | Alice Walker | ||
| 738e284 | 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. | Alice Walker | ||
| ba0ee08 | It is as if my self is hiding behind an iron door. | Alice Walker | ||
| 3127934 | 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. | Alice Walker | ||
| c5fa88d | 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. | native-americans poems poetry race-relations united-states united-states-of-america us usa whites | Alice Walker | |
| c61cdb9 | 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?" | Alice Walker | ||
| f0bf441 | 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 | Alice Walker | ||
| a97bcad | there was no sympathy for struggle that ended in defeat. Which meant there was no sympathy for struggle itself--only for "winning." | Alice Walker | ||
| aac2c36 | 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. | Alice Walker | ||
| d0bea1b | 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, .. | god | Alice Walker | |
| c227447 | Tashi knows she is learning a way of life she will never live. | Alice Walker | ||
| a98bd1a | I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man. | Alice Walker | ||
| 9e20df1 | 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. | Alice Walker | ||
| 0bb4cc6 | 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. | Alice Walker | ||
| a24f1bd | 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 .. | Alice Walker | ||
| 1fda259 | 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. | Alice Walker | ||
| a9b60de | 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.. | Alice Walker | ||
| 526ca1b | Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail. I give it to him straight, just like it come to me. And it seem to come to me from the trees. | Alice Walker | ||
| ad2c114 | The years have come and gone without a single word from you. Only the sky above us do we hold in common. I look at it often as if, somehow, reflected from its immensities, I will one day find myself gazing into your eyes. | Alice Walker | ||
| a3b376d | The world was almost at the point of forgetting what a fine time people can have helping one another. That people like to work together and to kick back after work and share their experiences. What would happen if our foreign policy centered on the cultivation of joy rather than pain? she thought. | foreign-policy | Alice Walker | |
| 3c863e3 | Naw, I say. Mr ____, can tell you, I don't like it at all. What is it to like? He git up on you, heist your nightgown round your waist, plunge in. Most times I pretend I ain't there. He never know the difference. Never ast me how I feel, nothing. Just do his business, get off, go to sleep. She start to laugh. Do his business, she say. Do his business. Why, Miss Celie. You make it sound like he going to the toilet on you. That's what it feel.. | direspect humour love rape relationship sex sexual-abuse | Alice Walker | |
| 2f640a7 | Modern, Historical and Fictional Examples: Helena Blavatsky, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Anandamayi Ma, Kahlil Gibran, Herman Melville, Paul Gaugin, Whoopie Goldberg, Alice Walker, Mattie Stepanek, Igor Stravinsky, Meryl Streep | Aletheia Luna | ||
| c8d77c4 | Why can't Tashi come to school? she asked me. When I told her the Olinka don't believe in educating girls she said, quick as a flash, They're like white people at home who don't want colored people to learn. Oh, she's sharp, Celie. At the end of the day, when Tashi can get away from all the chores her mother assigns her, she and Olivia secret themselves in my hut and everything Olivia has learned she shares with Tashi. To Olivia right now T.. | Alice Walker | ||
| 7bc0508 | I love children say Sofia. But all the colored women that say they love yours is lying. They don't love Reynolds Stanley any more than I do. But if you so badly raise as to ast 'em, what you expect them to say? Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin. | Alice Walker | ||
| 6b1fde4 | We'll, you know how nigger is. Can't nobody tell 'em nothing even today. Can't be rule. Every nigger you see got a kingdom in his head. | Alice Walker | ||
| 19bef6c | But it ain't easy, trying to do without God. Even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain. | Alice Walker | ||
| 3e73953 | Then he say something that really surprise me cause it so thoughtful and common sense. When it come to what folks do together with they bodies, he say, anybody's guess is as good as mine. But when you talk about love I don't have to guess. I have love and I have been love. And I thank God he let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. | sexuality | Alice Walker | |
| 232336d | I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. | Alice Walker | ||
| 50ca6fd | Sometimes you have to just go for what you want. Take the risk in order to get the reward. | Melody Carlson | ||
| df61f59 | Nothing wrong with taking time to figure out your life and make sure you really like where your life is going. I mean, it's better to do it now than when it's too late. | Melody Carlson | ||
| 7003e5d | Don't worry about how bad things look right now. It's all going to fall into place. You'll see. | Melody Carlson | ||
| 89c8a42 | Most guys don't like to be pursued like that. I mean, I suppose it's kinda flattering when a girl likes you so much that she'll go after you, but most guys want to be the ones doing the chasing. | Melody Carlson | ||
| 4436340 | When the Friend comes, the Spirit of the Truth, he will take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is. He won't draw attention to himself, but will make sense of what is about to happen and, indeed, out of all that I have done and said. He will honor me; he will take from me and deliver it to you. | Melody Carlson | ||
| 92b46ee | Shut off the internal bashing. | teenagers | Melody Carlson | |
| 9577535 | you don't fully appreciate what you've got until something threatens to take it away. | inspirational religious-faith spiritual | Melody Carlson | |
| b1f41c3 | Surely all art is the result of having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further. RAINER MARIA RILKE | Chaim Potok | ||
| e7c3f22 | Asher Lev, an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist. | Chaim Potok | ||
| c1df56c | What's next from you? Paintingwise, I mean." "I don't know. I'm between things now." "Dawn between things or dusk between things?" "I don't know that, either." | Chaim Potok |