Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.
Alice Walker
Related To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-h... ERIC JEROME DICKEY Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart... GERMANY KENT It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer i... LADY GAGA All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Walker) told black women that they don't have to be less than they are capable of being. I try to u... WHOOPI GOLDBERG I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this beha... CALEB CARR People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly th... ANNA DEAVERE SMITH The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For ... WILHELM REICH Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. —ALICE WALKER DEMI LOVATO To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one. THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth. JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ... JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju... JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ... THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l... JUSTINA CHEN It's an honest attempt for citizen journalists to express their version of the truth. It's also some... DAVID GUTH The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI I think, regardless of gender, women and men need to be brave, take chances with their work, and be ... ELLIE KEMPER Do you love me as the person that I am now, or do you love me as the person I used to be? ANTHONY T. HINCKS This action from the Diocese of California appears to us to be an open act of defiance. CYNTHIA BRUST Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed. NATALIE MORALES We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes tha... EVA BURROWS The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD My average customer used to be in their late 40s or 50s. Now most of them are in their mid-20s. They... PHYLLIS PEDRIZZETTI To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ... STEPHANIE KLEIN To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create somet... ANDY ANDREWS Adoptive parents have to be careful because there are pregnant women out there (who) really don't ha... LORI KLOCKAU How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people... ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T... THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together. MICHAELA D. If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug... GARY F EVANS... There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p... EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love. CAMERON DOKEY What you say is what you become, be careful with your words SOTONYE ANGA Creativity is an act of defiance. TWYLA THARP If they leave, it'll take something away from Hollywood. It'll be an old building that used to be so... ERIN BENNETT When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance. STEVEN STROGATZ All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formati... QUENTIN BRYCE Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting th... ANN COULTER While not as common as they used to be, entire groups of people with what seems like an infinite amo... LINDSEY OUIMET We have to be really, really careful about what goes up on the site. LEILA DUNBAR I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. EMINEM Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly; In my own way, and with my full consent. Say... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Each of us is under a divinely spoken obligation to reach out with pardon and mercy and to forgive o... DIETER F. UCHTDORF I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif... JANE AUSTEN Be who you want to be not what others think you should be. BILAL SAIF Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI Because I want to be remembered. SHERMAN ALEXIE A proverb in the Old Testament states: 'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he t... GORDON B. HINCKLEY Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable. There are... THOMAS S. MONSON So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin ... ROBERT ANTON WILSON The Lord gives us a spirit of hope and a feeling of comfort and confidence that we can overcome the ... L. LIONEL KENDRICK The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time... DOUGLAS WOOD What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not... ELEANOR H. PORTER If you can BE your way through it, you can find your way to it. SUZETTE VEARNON There's nothing stupid about wanting to be loved. Believe me. NINA LACOUR Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then ... JOSEPH SMITH JR. Many people have asked me, 'How do you make a single life a happy one? My answer is, 'Create the bes... KRISTEN MCMAIN OAKS As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we have a responsibility to make our m... KRISTEN MCMAIN OAKS Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other,... IMMANUEL KANT If you want to be happy or if you want to be miserable—either way is your choice. So choose to be ... DEBASISH MRIDHA We should be just as concerned about women's safety as we are about their rights. I've been stunned ... WENDY WRIGHT Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love a... GERMANY KENT Be careful when you ask Karma for something that you have always wanted. When I was young, I asked t... JAMES HAUENSTEIN This is their clique. Where someone used to say, 'That kid is really strange, a weirdo,' now they sa... DARRELL IRWIN We experienced what I consider to be an extremely unlikely event. It was truly the straw that broke ... SAM JONES I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN It really can put our clients in danger. It also opens up confidentiality - we have women here who a... MAGGIE JONES Most worrying for me in China is the stoking up of nationalist sentiment as an alternative to, I thi... CHRIS PATTEN It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion ... RAHA MOHARRAK
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I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this tim... ALICE WALKER I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire... ALICE WALKER It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated... ALICE WALKER It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand. ALICE WALKER If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with fo... ALICE WALKER How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house th... ALICE WALKER The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any ALICE WALKER Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. ALICE WALKER Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make you... ALICE WALKER I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have ALICE WALKER Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre... ALICE WALKER I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some... ALICE WALKER In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,... ALICE WALKER The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native gro... ALICE WALKER She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch... ALICE WALKER The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. ALICE WALKER For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that t... ALICE WALKER Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can writ... ALICE WALKER It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the childr... ALICE WALKER Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, G... ALICE WALKER The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. ALICE WALKER The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than bl... ALICE WALKER The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previou... ALICE WALKER How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. ALICE WALKER And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative sp... ALICE WALKER Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conceptio... ALICE WALKER Somewhere in the bible it say Jesus hair was like lamb's wool, I say. Well, say Shug, if he came to ... ALICE WALKER The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. ALICE WALKER Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. ALICE WALKER It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have ... ALICE WALKER Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre... ALICE WALKER As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produc... ALICE WALKER Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. ALICE WALKER In search of my mother's garden I found my own. ALICE WALKER All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never de... ALICE WALKER It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black wo... ALICE WALKER The animals of the world exist
for their own reasons. They were
not made for humans any more
than... ALICE WALKER People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to re... ALICE WALKER The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout ALICE WALKER I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be sav... ALICE WALKER The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose ... ALICE WALKER How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names. ALICE WALKER As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and p... ALICE WALKER I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future t... ALICE WALKER Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything. ALICE WALKER This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money a... ALICE WALKER Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. ALICE WALKER In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of y... ALICE WALKER Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, ... ALICE WALKER I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious. ALICE WALKER In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ALICE WALKER If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were. ALICE WALKER You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty. ALICE WALKER I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never... ALICE WALKER I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people... ALICE WALKER Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowl... ALICE WALKER I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a... ALICE WALKER Horses make a landscape look beautiful. ALICE WALKER Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ALICE WALKER I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of... ALICE WALKER I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice ... ALICE WALKER Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. ALICE WALKER I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you unders... ALICE WALKER No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ALICE WALKER Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasm... ALICE WALKER The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. ALICE WALKER If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emo... ALICE WALKER A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in h... ALICE WALKER We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone. ALICE WALKER It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older ... ALICE WALKER I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. ... ALICE WALKER I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good... ALICE WALKER So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. ALICE WALKER I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically act... ALICE WALKER In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,... ALICE WALKER War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going of... ALICE WALKER Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and ... ALICE WALKER Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. ALICE WALKER I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. ALICE WALKER Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening.... ALICE WALKER 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expres... ALICE WALKER And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative sp... ALICE WALKER Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52. ALICE WALKER I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Ru... ALICE WALKER What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. ALICE WALKER I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and ... ALICE WALKER I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United Stat... ALICE WALKER Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams. ALICE WALKER There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sus... ALICE WALKER It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tender... ALICE WALKER Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, ... ALICE WALKER America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... ... ALICE WALKER Horses make a landscape look beautiful ALICE WALKER I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be th... ALICE WALKER Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. ALICE WALKER I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. ALICE WALKER Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. ALICE WALKER I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all ... ALICE WALKER Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been sy... ALICE WALKER Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person ... ALICE WALKER I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collectiv... ALICE WALKER The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' ALICE WALKER I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her... ALICE WALKER I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I wa... ALICE WALKER On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my... ALICE WALKER I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here... ALICE WALKER ...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to s... ALICE WALKER I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find th... ALICE WALKER I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but ... ALICE WALKER I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, wi... ALICE WALKER The absence of models, in literature as in life, to say nothing of painting, is an occupational haza... ALICE WALKER What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections ma... ALICE WALKER HELPED are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and t... ALICE WALKER My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness. ALICE WALKER My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head... ALICE WALKER I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a heal... ALICE WALKER I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around yo... ALICE WALKER One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, yo... ALICE WALKER Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who succes... ALICE WALKER What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears ALICE WALKER Activism is my rent for living on this planet. ALICE WALKER The original ''crime'' of ''niggers'' and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. ALICE WALKER People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, b... ALICE WALKER The creative mind is not a mind full of stuff. ALICE WALKER And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative sp... ALICE WALKER I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some d... ALICE WALKER Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. ALICE WALKER Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. ALICE WALKER Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. ALICE WALKER All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world ALICE WALKER It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come... ALICE WALKER For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that t... ALICE WALKER Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always ha... ALICE WALKER If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind. ALICE WALKER I've learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. ALICE WALKER Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget t... ALICE WALKER In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ALICE WALKER At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back t... ALICE WALKER When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us. ALICE WALKER In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helpin... ALICE WALKER I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father co... ALICE WALKER Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And ... ALICE WALKER Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerne... ALICE WALKER Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh pe... ALICE WALKER Everything want to be loved. ALICE WALKER Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything. God lo... ALICE WALKER All these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't... ALICE WALKER What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. ALICE WALKER Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to ... ALICE WALKER Time moves slowly, but passes quickly. ALICE WALKER My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. ALICE WALKER They were women then My mama's generation Husky of voice Stout of step With fists as well as Hands H... ALICE WALKER God is inside you and inside everybody else. But only them that search for it inside find it. And so... ALICE WALKER It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the childr... ALICE WALKER It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black wo... ALICE WALKER Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can writ... ALICE WALKER Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's gard... ALICE WALKER The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' ALICE WALKER It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing. 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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. 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