Tag: Alice Walker
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My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.
Alice Walker
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The most important question in the world is, ‘Why is the child crying?’
Alice Walker
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From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.
Alice Walker
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I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
Alice Walker
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My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?
Alice Walker
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It is natural to want to have a future.
Alice Walker
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Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
Alice Walker
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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
Alice Walker
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I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.
Alice Walker
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I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.
Alice Walker