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“Il womanismo sta al femminismo come il viola sta al lavanda.”

Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro del femminismo, traduzione di Martina Dominici, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 208. ISBN 9788858022900

“Gli animali esistono su questa Terra per se stessi. Non sono stati creati per gli umani, così come i neri non sono stati creati per i bianchi né le donne per gli uomini.”

Alice Walker

Origine: Citato in Will Tuttle, Cibo per la pace, traduzione di Marta Mariotto, Sonda, Casale Monferrato, 2014, p. 203. ISBN 978-88-7106-742-1

“Chiunque può osservare il sabato, ma per renderlo santo serve tutto il resto della settimana.”

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Alice Walker: Frasi in inglese

“Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.”

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Alice Walker libro The Temple of My Familiar

Origine: The Temple of My Familiar

“When life descends into the pit
I must become my own candle
Willingly burning my self
To light up the darkness around me.”

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“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”

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Alice Walker libro In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

Origine: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

“Never offer your heart
to someone who eats hearts
who finds heartmeat
delicious
but not rare
who sucks the juices
drop by drop
and bloody-chinned
grins
like a God.”

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“She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.”

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“The more I wonder, the more I love.”

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Alice Walker libro The Color Purple

Origine: The Color Purple

“When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.”

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

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Origine: Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology

“I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.”

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Alice Walker libro The Color Purple

Origine: The Color Purple

“Surely the earth can be saved
by all the people
who insist
on love.”

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Origine: Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems

“Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?”

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Alice Walker libro The Color Purple

Origine: The Color Purple (1982)

“Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.”

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Alice Walker libro The Color Purple

Origine: The Color Purple

“I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.”

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“(a womanist)

3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.”

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Alice Walker libro In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

Origine: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

“She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.”

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“What you hope for, you also fear.”

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Alice Walker libro The Temple of My Familiar

Origine: The Temple of My Familiar

“Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored”

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“You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.”

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“Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.”

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Alice Walker libro The Color Purple

Origine: The Color Purple

“Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237”

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Alice Walker libro The Color Purple

Origine: The Color Purple

“I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers…”

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“Like I said… fine with me.”

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Alice Walker libro The Color Purple

Origine: The Color Purple

“The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.”

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Alice Walker libro The Color Purple

The Color Purple (1982)

“I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.”

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“it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.”

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“I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.”

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Alice Walker libro The Color Purple

Origine: The Color Purple

“Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.”

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Alice Walker libro The Temple of My Familiar

Origine: The Temple of My Familiar

“Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise”

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“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.”

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“We do not believe in heaven or hell…; we do not believe in eternal damnation. We believe only in the unavoidable horror of hurting others and of likewise being hurt.”

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Origine: By The Light Of My Father's Smile

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