Tag: Alice Walker
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I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‘known for’ is what I am.
Alice Walker
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Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.
Alice Walker
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I think America has always been polarized.
Alice Walker
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I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.
Alice Walker
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‘Fame’ exhausts me.
Alice Walker
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Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
Alice Walker
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We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.
Alice Walker
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I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
Alice Walker
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.
Alice Walker
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Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you’re 52.
Alice Walker