Tag: Alice Walker
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My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.
Alice Walker
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Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.
Alice Walker
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I started writing as a child. But I didn’t think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something – no, maybe junior – and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
Alice Walker
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For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
Alice Walker
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I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.
Alice Walker
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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
Alice Walker
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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
Alice Walker
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We should not look down on our first ancestors.
Alice Walker
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
Alice Walker
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Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.
Alice Walker