Tag: Alice Walker
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I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.
Alice Walker
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You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.
Alice Walker
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It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.
Alice Walker
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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice Walker
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice Walker
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Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.
Alice Walker
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I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States’ response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.
Alice Walker
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When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.
Alice Walker
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How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
Alice Walker
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I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
Alice Walker