01c. 1944 ADWhen it is all too much; when the news is so bad meditation itself feels useless, and a single life feels too small a stone to offer on the altar of Peace, find a Human Sunrise. Find those people who are committed to changing our scary reality. Human sunrises are happening all over the earth, at every moment. People gathering, people working to change the intolerable, people coming in their robes and sandals or in their rags and bare feet, and they are singing, or not, and they are chanting, or not. But they are working to bring peace, light, compassion, to the infinitely frightening downhill slide of Human life.Alice Walker / quote ↗
02c. 1944 ADI live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.Alice Walker / quote ↗
03c. 1944 ADBut what was good tween us must have been nothing but bodies, she say. Cause I don't know the Albert that don't dance, can't hardly laugh, never talk bout nothing, beat you and hid your sister Nettie's letters. Who he?Alice Walker / quote ↗
04c. 1944 ADEven as I hold youI think of you as someone gonefar, far away. Your eyes the colorof pennies in a bowl of dark honeybringing sweet light to someone elseyour black hair slipping through my fingersis the flash of your head goingaround a corneryour smile, breaking before me,the flippant last turnof a revolving door,emptying you out, changed,away from me.Even as I hold youI am letting go.Alice Walker / quote ↗
06c. 1944 ADAnyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.Alice Walker / quote ↗
07c. 1944 ADThere is a way that the men speak to women that reminds me too much of Pa. They listen just long enough to issue instructions. They don’t even look at women when women are speaking. They look at the ground and bend their heads toward the ground.Alice Walker / quote ↗
08c. 1944 ADThe three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!Alice Walker / quote ↗
10c. 1944 ADEvery small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.Alice Walker / quote ↗
11c. 1944 ADYou think you can avoid [pain,] but you actually can't. If you do, you just get sicker, or you feel more pain. But if you can speak it, if you can write it, if you can paint it, it is very healing.Alice Walker / quote ↗
14c. 1944 ADOnce us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like.Alice Walker / quote ↗
15c. 1944 ADWhat she showed me was, Yes, I am Grandmother as she is; there is no separation, really, between us. And that, on this planet, Grandmother Earth, there is no higher authority. That our inseparability is why the planet will be steered to safety by Grandmother/Grandmothers or it will not be steered to safety at all.Alice Walker / quote ↗
16c. 1944 ADYou telling me God love you, and you ain't never done nothing for him? I mean, not go to church, sing in the choir, feed the preacher and all like that?But if God love me, Celie, I don't have to do all that. Unless I want to. There's a lot of other things I can do that I speck God likes. Like what? I ast. Oh, she say. I can lay back and just admire stuff. Be happy. Have a good time. Well, this sounds like blasphemy sure nuff. She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.Alice Walker / quote ↗
17c. 1944 ADHe beat me when you not here, I say.Who do, she say, Albert?Mr ____, I say.I can't believe it, she say. She sit down on the bench next to me real hard, like she drop.What he beat you for? she ast.For being me and not you.Alice Walker / quote ↗
19c. 1944 ADI believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.Alice Walker / quote ↗
20c. 1944 ADWhen the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.Alice Walker / quote ↗
21c. 1944 ADThe real revolution is always concerned with the least glamorous stuff. With raising a reading level from second grade to third. With simplifying history and writing it down (or reciting it) for the old folks. With helping illiterates fill out a food-stamps form - for they must eat, revolution or not.Alice Walker / quote ↗
22c. 1944 ADThen he say something that really surprise me cause it so thoughtful and common sense. When it come to what folks do together with they bodies, he say, anybody's guess is as good as mine. But when you talk about love I don't have to guess. I have love and I have been love. And I thank God he let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan.Alice Walker / quote ↗
23c. 1944 ADIt all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.Alice Walker / quote ↗
24c. 1944 ADHard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's 'hard times' were made harder by them.Alice Walker / quote ↗
