Tag: Alice Walker
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I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.
Alice Walker
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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice Walker
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
Alice Walker
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Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.
Alice Walker
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The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?
Alice Walker
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One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.
Alice Walker
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Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.
Alice Walker
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People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.
Alice Walker
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Alice Walker
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walker