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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
Alice Walker
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Alice Walker
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
Alice Walker
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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
Alice Walker
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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
Alice Walker
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
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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.
Alice Walker
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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
Alice Walker
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Alice Walker
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
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