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" I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again. "

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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

Alone

Life

Happiness

" The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. "

" We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. "

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

" I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing. "

" Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. "

" 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. "

Alice Walker

Change

Enjoy

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

" Fear is real, but so is love. "

" My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. "

" War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet. "

" Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people. "

" It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom. "

" My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. "

" America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see. "

" Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. "

" There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason. "

" I'm the most stubborn person I know. "

" I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature. "

" I never talk about my next project. "

Alice Walker

Talk

About

" Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. "

Alice Walker

Feminist

Purple

" What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore. "

" 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. "

" In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. "

" It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are. "

" I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over. "

" I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know. "

" Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything. "

" No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. "

" 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. "