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" Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. "
Alice Walker
Any
God
Me
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" Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. "
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" There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason. "
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" Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52. "
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" My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. "
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" We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it. "
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" It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine. "
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" The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print. "
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" I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. "
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" I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have. "
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" We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone. "
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" I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "
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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. "
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Understand
People
" I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing. "
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Hard
Time
Publishing
" 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. "
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World
Self
Nature
" Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power. "
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Religion
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" I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad. "
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" I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. "
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Because
University
Friend
" I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth. "
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Myself
Place
People
" It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they're different. It's very limiting. "
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Think
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" My interest in creating anything is that it be useful. "
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" It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land. "
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" To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people. "
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" Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. "
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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. "
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