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" How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed? "

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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

Think

Feel

Injustice

" I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve. "

" 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. "

" Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? "

" I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it? "

" The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior. "

" Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams. "

Alice Walker

Women

Courage

" In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid. "

" Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft. "

Alice Walker

Without

Say

" I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe. "

" Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get. "

" In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. "

" 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. "

" I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered. "

Alice Walker

Women

Friendship

" I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old. "

" Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. "

" It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing. "

" We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid. "

" It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine. "

Alice Walker

Parents

Hard

" 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. "

" I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America. "

" Fear is real, but so is love. "

" Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer. "

" It is important to remember yourself. "

" Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. "

" I think America has always been polarized. "

" My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness. "

" One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe. "

" You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss. "

Alice Walker

Love

You

" One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate. "