Quotes from The Temple of My Familiar

“I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.”
― Alice Walker, quote from The Temple of My Familiar

“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.”
― Alice Walker, quote from The Temple of My Familiar

“What you hope for, you also fear. ”
― Alice Walker, quote from The Temple of My Familiar

“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.”
― Alice Walker, quote from The Temple of My Familiar

“Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.”
― Alice Walker, quote from The Temple of My Familiar

“Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth.

-----“The Gospel According to Shug”
― Alice Walker, quote from The Temple of My Familiar

“Too much respect for people who are not respectful to you is a sure sign of insecurity.”
― Alice Walker, quote from The Temple of My Familiar

“Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want.”
― Alice Walker, quote from The Temple of My Familiar

“The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full.”
― Alice Walker, quote from The Temple of My Familiar

“Life is very different when you have a good friend. I've seen people without special friends, close friends. Other men, especially. For some reason men don't often make and keep friends. This is a real tragedy, I think, because in a way, without a tight male friend, you never really are able to see yourself.”
― Alice Walker, quote from The Temple of My Familiar

“Perhaps this is simply the way it is with writers. It's when they don't see you that you matter. Because then you can belong to them in a way that permits them complete possession. You are determined by them. You are controlled. You are, generally speaking, exaggerated.”
― Alice Walker, quote from The Temple of My Familiar

“I’m mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can’t even bring themselves to talk.”
― Alice Walker, quote from The Temple of My Familiar

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