Tag: Alice Walker
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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
Alice Walker
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I started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
Alice Walker
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People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.
Alice Walker
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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
Alice Walker
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People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.
Alice Walker
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I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
Alice Walker
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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
Alice Walker
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The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
Alice Walker
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
Alice Walker
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I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
Alice Walker