The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
citado em "Vegetarian Times" - Página 68, Revista - jul. 1989 - núm. 143 ISSN 0164-8497 Publicado por Active Interest Media, Inc.- 80 páginas
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Alice Walker Frases famosas
“O 'crime' original de pessoas 'negras' e lésbicas é que elas preferem a si mesmas.”
The original "crime" of "niggers" and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, Breaking Chains and Encouraging Life (1983)
“Não pode ser seu amigo quem exige seu silêncio ou atrapalha seu crescimento.”
no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose - Página 36, Alice Walker - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983 - 397 páginas
Alice Walker livro A Cor Púrpura
I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident.
A Cor Púrpura
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Alice Walker: Frases em inglês
Alice Walker livro A Cor Púrpura
Fonte: The Color Purple (1982)
Alice Walker livro A Cor Púrpura
Fonte: The Color Purple
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
As quoted in The Best Liberal Quotes Ever : Why the Left is Right (2004) by William P. Martin, p. 173.
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.”
From the film poster for Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth.
Alice Walker livro A Cor Púrpura
Fonte: The Color Purple
Alice Walker livro The Temple of My Familiar
Fonte: The Temple of My Familiar
“We know a roofleaf is not Jesus Christ, but in its own humble way, is it not God?”
Alice Walker livro A Cor Púrpura
The Color Purple (1982)
“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
Fonte: Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems
Foreword to The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery (1996) by Marjorie Spiegel, p. 14 http://books.google.com/books?ei=je4zTPjrBcmTnQfXmMCLBA&ct=result&id=8u_tAAAAMAAJ&dq=dreaded+comparison+%22exist+for+their+own%22&q=%22exist+for+their+own%22.
Alice Walker livro A Cor Púrpura
Fonte: The Color Purple
“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”
Alice Walker livro A Cor Púrpura
Fonte: The Color Purple
“Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.”
Alice Walker livro A Cor Púrpura
Fonte: The Color Purple
