One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
Alice WalkerSome colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
Alice WalkerEverything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
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...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 WalkerI'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
Alice WalkerTags: inspirational creativity creative
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Alice WalkerLife is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
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Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.
Alice WalkerResist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.
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