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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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" 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. "

Alice Walker

Think

Religion

Earth

" I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame. "

" 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. "

" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "

" It is important to remember yourself. "

" I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism. "

" 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

" For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended. "

" I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really? "

" We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise. "

Alice Walker

Enemies

Who

" You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal. "

" 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. "

" How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. "

Alice Walker

Mothers

Simple

" If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs. "

" It's not possible to stop love. "

" 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. "

" There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation. "

" I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do. "

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

" 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. "

" We should not look down on our first ancestors. "

" 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. "

" We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal. "

Alice Walker

Equal

Existence

" I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored. "

" Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. "

" 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 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. "

" I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. "

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

Alice Walker

Parents

Hard

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