Tag: Alice Walker
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I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it’s a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.
Alice Walker
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I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‘See, you did it yourself.’
Alice Walker
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I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.
Alice Walker
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I think ‘The Color Purple’ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.
Alice Walker
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
Alice Walker
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I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
Alice Walker
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The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.
Alice Walker
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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.
Alice Walker
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I’m sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
Alice Walker
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I don’t feel I’ve had a decent critic ever on the East coast.
Alice Walker