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" And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. "

Alice Walker

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Spark

Seed

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Enjoy

" When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote. "

" I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. "

" People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location. "

" I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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Writing

Violence

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Parents

Hard

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