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" 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. "

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" I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women. "

Alice Walker

Woman

Future

Vision

" 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. "

" Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence. "

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

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

" I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything. "

" The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism? "

" I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish. "

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

" You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul. "

" 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. "

" As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening. "

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

" Fear is real, but so is love. "

" I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine. "

" My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it. "

" David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X. "

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

" What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. "

" From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work. "

" If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were. "

" The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass. "

" 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. "

" I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too. "

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

" My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. "

Alice Walker

Women

Father

" Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. "

" 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 believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you. "