{"author":"Alice Walker","author_id":"Alice+Walker","total_quotes":123,"quotes":[{"text":"The more powerful the powerful appear the more invisible they become, said Armando. This used to work differently than now. In the old days it was said that the powerful merged with the divine and the divine was all that one saw. But now the powerful have merged with the shadow, really with death, and when you encounter them they are really hard to see.","author":"Alice Walker","tags":["divine","power"],"id":500,"author_id":"Alice+Walker"},{"text":"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.","author":"Alice Walker","tags":["acceptance","friendship"],"id":4427,"author_id":"Alice+Walker"},{"text":"On Stripping Bark from Myself(for Jane, who said trees die from it)Because women are expected to keep silent abouttheir close escapes I will not keep silentand if I am destroyed (naked tree!) someone willpleasemark the spotwhere I fall and know I could not livesilent in my own lieshearing their 'how nice she is!'whose adoration of the retouched imageI so despise.No. I am finished with livingfor what my mother believesfor what my brother and father defendfor what my lover elevatesfor what my sister, blushing, denies or rushesto embrace.I find my ownsmall persona standing selfagainst the worldan equality of willsI finally understand.Besides:My struggle was always againstan inner darkness: I carry within myselfthe only known keysto my death – to unlock life, or close it shutforever. A woman who loves wood grains, the coloryellowand the sun, I am happy to fightall outside murderersas I see I must.","author":"Alice Walker","tags":["life","women"],"id":5129,"author_id":"Alice+Walker"},{"text":"When I no longer have your heartI will not request your bodyyour presenceor even your polite conversation.I will go away to a far countryseparated from you by the sea— on which I cannot walk —and refrain even from sendinglettersdescribing my pain.","author":"Alice Walker","tags":["breakups","heartache","heartbreak","poems","poetry","relationships"],"id":5950,"author_id":"Alice+Walker"},{"text":"If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.","author":"Alice Walker","tags":["characters","mind","people","silence","silent","writers","writing"],"id":14727,"author_id":"Alice+Walker"},{"text":"Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.","author":"Alice Walker","tags":["courage"],"id":17636,"author_id":"Alice+Walker"},{"text":"Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.","author":"Alice Walker","tags":["pain","racial","feelings "],"id":25737,"author_id":"Alice+Walker"},{"text":"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.","author":"Alice Walker","tags":["inspirational"],"id":35727,"author_id":"Alice+Walker"},{"text":"You know how big love is? Love is big. Love can hold anger love can even hold hatred. ","author":"Alice Walker","tags":["love","love is","know "],"id":36758,"author_id":"Alice+Walker"},{"text":"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.","author":"Alice Walker","tags":["color","god","purple","religion"],"id":45344,"author_id":"Alice+Walker"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":123,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}