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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7c0b25a | She used to read to us without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice. She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know. | Alice Walker | ||
| 995073d | Celie, tell the truth, 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 | ||
| 4c3db89 | I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found it. | Alice Walker | ||
| 7f9bc39 | Eu unu cred ca suntem aici ca sa ne miram. Sa ne miram. Sa intrebam. Iar daca te miri de lucrurile mari si intrebi de lucrurile mari, atuncea 'nveti despre alea marunte, aproape din intamplare. Da despre lucrurile mari n-ai sa stii niciodata mai multe decat stiai la inceput. Cu cat ma mir mai mult, cu atat iubesc mai mult, a spus el. | Alice Walker | ||
| 3f9c905 | A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself. | Alice Walker | ||
| 91109d5 | It is the need to be remembered that has caused most of the trouble in the world, | Alice Walker | ||
| 7910f38 | The colonizing mind invites itself wherever it wishes to intrude; it is a worthwhile practice for the coming millennium to train ourselves away from such a mind. | Alice Walker | ||
| 6dd2a8c | I think of the meaning of the word "testimony." Originally it named the custom of two men holding each other's testicles in a gesture of trust, later to metamorphose into the handshake." | Alice Walker | ||
| 030912e | there could be no happy community in which there was one unhappy child. | Alice Walker | ||
| 783718c | Alice Walker published her important essay ("In Search of Zora Neale Hurston") in Ms. magazine in 1975," | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| c5ebf7a | You are all talking a bit too much, said Armando, who had cautioned them from the beginning to stay out of popular culture and in their own interior worlds. When you are caught up in the world that you did not design as support for your life and the life of earth and people, it is like being caught in someone else's dream or nightmare. Many people exist in their lives in this way. I say exist because it is not really living. It is akin to b.. | wisdom-inspirational | Alice Walker | |
| 973bebe | Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown. | men religion | Alice Walker | |
| a4c08a1 | The more powerful the powerful appear the more invisible they become, said Armando. This used to work differently than now. In the old days it was said that the powerful merged with the divine and the divine was all that one saw. But now the powerful have merged with the shadow, really with death, and when you encounter them they are really hard to see. | power | Alice Walker | |
| 804798d | He beat me when you not here, I say. Who do, she say, Albert? Mr ____, I say. I can't believe it, she say. She sit down on the bench next to me real hard, like she drop. What he beat you for? she ast. For being me and not you. | abuse-survivor envy jealousy violence wife-beater | alice walker | |
| 1cc6cbd | I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking 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. The more I wonder, he say, the more I love. | Alice Walker | ||
| 254d68f | All he think about since us married is how to make me mind. He don't want a wife, he want a dog. (Walker 2000: 58) | Alice Walker | ||
| 309fd0f | But what was good tween us must have been nothing but bodies, she say. Cause I don't know the Albert that don't dance, can't hardly laugh, never talk bout nothing, beat you and hid your sister Nettie's letters. Who he? | deceit love memory relationship | alice walker | |
| ef1f657 | The Estate of Zora Neale Hurston would like to thank those people who have worked so hard over the years in introducing new generations of readers to the work of Zora Neale Hurston. We are indebted to Robert Hemenway, Alice Walker, and all the Modern Language Association folks who helped usher in Zora's rediscovery. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 39d05eb | That she had seen the magazines we receive from home and that it was very clear to her that black people did not truly admire blackskinned black people like herself, and especially did not admire blackskinned black women. They bleach their faces, she said. They fry their hair. They try to look naked. | Alice Walker | ||
| d008323 | Tashi's mother and father were just here. They are upset because she spends so much time with Olivia. She is changing, becoming quiet and too thoughtful, they say. She is becoming someone else; her face is beginning to show the spirit of one of her aunts who was sold to the trader because she no longer fit into village life. This aunt refused to marry the man chosen for her. Refused to bow to the chief. Did nothing but lay up, crack cola nu.. | Alice Walker | ||
| b7eed3d | And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content. Truman with his sculpting and building the recreation center. Lynne writing poems occasionally, reading them to her friends, then tearing them up. | Alice Walker | ||
| b3e2a74 | Let him hear me. If [god] ever listened to poor colored women, the world would be a different place. | Alice Walker | ||
| 6f555f2 | My friend says to me: But what can we do? Already giving up. To be aware is already something, I say. Consciousness rarely leaves us unmoved. Or unmoving. And so it is with this revelation of what has been happening to our children, all of them, and especially to our boys. The beast in so-called civilized man is more lethal, sinister, grotesque and cunning than I would have believed: And what is it, anyhow, this beast? How does it manifest .. | Alice Walker | ||
| 492ace3 | What is happening in Africa (& elsewhere) is because the men did not listen to the women & the women did not listen to the women either & because the people did not listen to each other & themselves & because nobody listened to the children & the poets. - Alice Walker | Zainab Salbi | ||
| ec9d91b | My first step from the old white man was trees. Then air. Then birds. Then other people. But one day when I was sitting quiet and feeling like a motherless child, which I was, it come to me: that feeling of being part of everything, not separate at all. I knew that if I cut a tree, my arm would bleed. And I laughed and I cried and I run all around the house. I knew just what it was. In fact, when it happen, you can't miss it. | Alice Walker | ||
| 6fd7e1e | Health is our culture; anything that interferes with it is our bondage. | Alice Walker | ||
| cc4765e | Religion is an elaborate excuse for what man has done to women and to the earth | Alice Walker | ||
| 13f9f88 | Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail. | Alice Walker | ||
| f304cb0 | Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. --Alice Walker | Steven D. Price | ||
| 9d4a916 | This book is dedicated with tenderness and respect to the blameless vulva | Alice Walker | ||
| 17e911e | Don't look like nothing, she say. It ain't a picture show. It ain't something you can look at apart from anything else, including yourself. I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It. | Alice Walker | ||
| 8324bbc | I remember one time you said your life made you feel so ashamed you couldn't even talk about it to God, you had to write it, bad as you thought your writing was. Well, now I know what you meant. And whether God reads letters or no, I know you will go on writing them; which is guidance enough for me. (Walker 2000: 110) | Alice Walker | ||
| 690db47 | They think, after the biggest of the white folks no longer on the earth, the only way to stop making somebody the serpent is for everybody to accept everybody else as a child of God, or one mother's children, no matter what they look like or how they act. | Alice Walker | ||
| a095f46 | He did not use these things anymore, and yet, the thought of letting them go made him sad. He felt they represented times in his life he could not recall without their presence. They represented stories, | stories things time | Alice Walker | |
| 4cf9c72 | She thought of how diligently she'd worked to free herself. Difficult because of the shock she was in, discovering she was trapped, captured most of all by possessions. | trapped | Alice Walker | |
| dc56287 | For her life, like human life everywhere on the planet, had speeded up and speeded up until peace was rarely possible. Always there was movement, noise, inevitable and constant distraction [. ...] a madness had seized the earth. The madness of speed. As if to speed things up meant to actually go somewhere. And where, after all, was there to go? The present is all there ever is, no matter how much you lean forward or back. | society speed stress | Alice Walker | |
| 52540d7 | If my mind is crowded with ideas or thoughts or plans or other people's creations there is less room for my own. | Alice Walker | ||
| 4a79311 | But one thing I do thank her for, for teaching me to learn for myself, by reading and studying and writing a clear hand. | teaching | Alice Walker | |
| ace89dc | At menopause, a time of extremely high power and shapeshifting, we are told to behave as though nothing is happening. To continue the "game" of life as if we are still girls. We are not girls. And to continue to act as though we are robs the world and the coming generations of our insights." | Alice Walker | ||
| 756f367 | Tashi dice que quiere enfrentarse al peloton de fusilamiento vestida de rojo. Le recuerdo que su sentencia esta siendo apelada. Tambien cabe la esperanza de que los Estados Unidos hagan valer la ciudadania norteamericana de Tashi. Es igual, quiero ir de rojo, dice, pase lo que pase. Estoy harta del blanco y el negro. Ninguno va primero. El rojo, el color de la sangre de mujer, los precede a ambos. De modo que cosemos. | walker | Alice Walker | |
| 7d16e82 | the earth on which we live is the body of God. All people and living things are the body and soul of God. And...we serve God not by making the earth and its people suffer but by making the earth and its people whole. | spirituality | Alice Walker | |
| 30be812 | Sofia take up the clothes, straighten them out, stand by the ironing board with her hand on the iron. Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand it look like a weapon. | Alice Walker | ||
| d8e592d | Of what was plastic made? What died? He knew it was a product of petroleum, of oil, and so he assumed plastic was made out of the very lifeblood of the planet. When all the oil was drained, he imagined the planet quaking and shrinking in on itself, like a squeezed orange that has been sucked to death. He | Alice Walker | ||
| ff5c0d5 | a planner-the sort of person who could size up a situation and take control and be rewarded with a good outcome. | Melody Carlson |