American - Author | February 9, 1944 -
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice Walker
TodayFreedomTomorrowEndBattle
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
GodExperienceCaseAnyInnate
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
SimpleMeMomKnowNamesMothers
All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
ExperienceSocietyUnderstandingMust
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
MeWritingViolenceSinSaved
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
UniversePartnershipCreateCreation
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.
GodMeChurchFeltEverAny
I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.
HeartWantTeachTryThings
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
HistoryWorldInjusticeLevelSome
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
SpiritualJoyPeopleBelieveBlack
People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
LifeProgressPeopleRestThink
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
MoneyWomanManPeopleSlaveryYou
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Alice Walker quotes