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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

#down #end #engaged #faces #fears

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. ↗

— Alice Walker

#because #believe #better #boring #fresh

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to. ↗

— Alice Walker

#daily #differently #each #fears #figure

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again. ↗

— Alice Walker

#again #almost #because #change #dire

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best. ↗

— Alice Walker

#done #even #fail #failing #fear

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. ↗

— Alice Walker

#purple

When life tries to define you with its hardship, you gotta push back, look it straight in the eye and say, ‘No matter what life throws at me, I’m going to keep telling myself that I will overcome.’ And every time you own that truth, you write your own life script. ↗

— Nikki Rosen

#faith #god #grace #hope #life

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. ↗

— Alice Walker

#mind #understand #worships

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. ↗

— Alice Walker

#brought #church #ever #felt #god

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish. ↗

— Alice Walker

#comes #correctly #culture #describe #does