"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."
― Alice Walker
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Power
― Alice Walker
More From Alice Walker
- "I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion."
- "I’m sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power."
- "Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me."
More In Power
- "What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking."― Voltaire
- "To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending."― Rafael Correa
- "There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world."― J. William Fulbright