Alice Walker Quotes

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Alice Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 9, 1944

Topics

FearPainFeelingsOthersDevotion

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

Joan Blades

BetterElectionsGotVoterPercent

Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.

Jerry Weller

CrimeMakeHarmAnotherFetus

Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.

Jemima Kirke

HumbleSimpleMeInterestingI Can

Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

Robert Stack

YouPartyCocktailOutCheckGoing

There's no telling how many guns we have in America - and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

WorkPoliceComputersGunHelpWay

There are three things that can be organized: time, space, and work. Note that, despite what many believe, you cannot organize people - you can only organize the work that people do.

Michael Gerber

WorkTimeSpacePeopleBelieveYou

I made good grades in school.

Stephanie Beatriz

GoodSchoolGradesGood GradesMade

I'm the son of two Holocaust survivors. As a child, I heard from one of my parents' best friends about living through Mengele's infamous selection process at Auschwitz. He haunted my nightmares.

Ronen Bergman

SonBestChildParentsFriendsTwo

I will be sent back to Washington, D.C., with the grace of God and all the Alaskan voters out there because all Alaskans have asked me to go back and continue my service.

Lisa Murkowski

GodServiceGraceMeBackGo

I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.

Dennis Franz

PlansNeedWhoDirectFeels

I've always felt like there's a certain amount of doing what I do, and performing and making records and doing interviews and photo shoots and that, that are kind of a necessary evil of getting my music to people's ears to hear. Over the years, I've just become more tolerant of that.

Chris Cornell

MusicPeopleEvilDoingKindBecome

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.

Brian Harris

MusicSoulPoetryMouthBornSilver

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