Tag: Alice Walker
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
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In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.
Alice Walker
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I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.
Alice Walker
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
Alice Walker
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Alice Walker
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So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.
Alice Walker
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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
Alice Walker
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Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.
Alice Walker
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I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.
Alice Walker
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Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you’re just going to keep buying and selling things until there’s nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
Alice Walker