Tag: Alice Walker
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I realized I was a country person – I’m just not used to small spaces.
Alice Walker
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In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.
Alice Walker
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I start each book when it’s ready and never before.
Alice Walker
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I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.
Alice Walker
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Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.
Alice Walker
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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.
Alice Walker
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I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.
Alice Walker
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
Alice Walker
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June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.
Alice Walker
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I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.
Alice Walker