Tag: Alice Walker
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One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.
Alice Walker
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My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.
Alice Walker
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I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.
Alice Walker
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I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.
Alice Walker
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Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?
Alice Walker
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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
Alice Walker
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I’m not lesbian; I’m not bisexual; I’m not straight. I’m just curious.
Alice Walker
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It’s not possible to stop love.
Alice Walker
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We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.
Alice Walker
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If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.
Alice Walker