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40 quotes
American author and activist
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful."
on Nature
"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."
on Happiness
"All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world."
on Justice
"In search of my mother's garden, I found my own."
on Life
"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."
on Freedom
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
on Inspirational
"Even as I hold you, I am letting you go."
on Love
"What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears."
on Fear
"When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us."
on Society
"No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow."
on Relationships
"'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding."
on Faith
"Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness."
on Art
"The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account."
on Philosophy
"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it."
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
"Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?"
"Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future."
"I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together."
on Truth
"It 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."
"I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is."
