Womanist Alice Quotes

#1. My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.

Robert Rauschenberg

#2. Someone once asked me ... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"

Aaron Copland

#3. Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Alice Walker

#4. (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.

Alice Walker

#5. Make the right decisions in life and you'll never have to worry about saving $3 a day on lattes.

Ramit Sethi

#6. What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.

Alice Walker

#7. Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

Jared Diamond

#8. And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you - here I opened wide the door;
Darkness there, and nothing more.

Edgar Allan Poe

#9. Why do you shine so fucking bright? You make it hard for me to sleep next to you.

L.J. Shen

#10. I hold that there is a mysterious connection between the fate of this country and that of Mexico; so much so that her independence and capability of sustaining herself are almost as essential to our prosperity and the maintenance of our institutions as they are to hers.

John C. Calhoun

#11. My number one focus is and will always be football. I wanted to make sure that companies I partner with not only respect that, but also make sense and are quality products. I think Klipsch is synonymous with quality in the sound industry, so it was a natural partnership.

Andrew Luck

#12. China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.

Rebecca MacKinnon