Today we wish a very happy birthday to the author of The Color Purple, Alice Walker. A story lover from a young age Alice came from a family whereby oral tradition was the manner in which tales were handed on, so Alice had to hide her written tales, thankfully she never lost her passion for writing and we are now able to enjoy her stories.
Her life reads like fiction and is well worth looking into if you have five minutes.
To celebrate this amazing author and activist’s birthday we have collected together 8 Quotes for you to enjoy.
“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
“What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.”
“Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.”
“Look closely at the present you are constructing; it should look like the future you are dreaming.”
“I’m mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can’t even bring themselves to talk.”
“Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.”
“It has been proved that the land can exist without the country – and be better for it; it has not been proved that the country can live without the land.”
I don’t think we have ever published a set of quotes that have contained so many obvious truths about life today.
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