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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with A >> Quotes By Alice Walker |
| Quote #1: | "Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk" |
| Quote #2: | "Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it." |
| Quote #3: | "The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying'" |
| Quote #4: | "Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for." |
| Quote #5: | "The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout." |
| Quote #6: | "No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." |
| Quote #7: | "Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception." |
| Quote #8: | "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." |
| Quote #9: | "In order to be able to live in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose." |
| Quote #10: | "The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen." |
| Quote #11: | "I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart." |
| Quote #12: | "Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week." |
| Quote #13: | "How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names." |
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