Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.
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ALICE WALKER The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. ALICE WALKER She standing there looking me straight in the eye. She look tired and her jaws full of air. I s... ALICE WALKER God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more ... ALICE WALKER His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64 ALICE WALKER I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you ... ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co... ALICE WALKER Like I said...fine with me. ALICE WALKER Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237 ALICE WALKER Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it. ALICE WALKER The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this... ALICE WALKER Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre... ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co... ALICE WALKER The more I wonder, the more I love. ALICE WALKER Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He ... ALICE WALKER Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly. ALICE WALKER A grown child is a dangerous thing. ALICE WALKER People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always ... ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my c... ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co... ALICE WALKER Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved. ALICE WALKER And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some people... ALICE WALKER A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is th... ALICE WALKER Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the up... ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo... ALICE WALKER I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly dama... ALICE WALKER The longer I am a writer--so long now that my writing finger is periodically numb--the better I unde... ALICE WALKER Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve. ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date. ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way. ALICE WATERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit... ALICE OSWALD After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to... ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to... ALICE DREGER