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" I don't generally read reviews. "
Alice Walker
Reviews
Generally
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" Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. "
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" 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? "
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Story
Eyes
People
" So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. "
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Shock
Black
Lifetime
" 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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House
Long
Living
" 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. "
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Thankful
You
Gratitude
" The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print. "
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Heart
Your
You
" We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal. "
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Us
Equal
Existence
" You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about. "
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Race
Will
Think
" My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. "
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Crawling
Writing
Mother
" I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been. "
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Attack
Been
United States
" I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly. "
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Our
Used
Think
" 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. "
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Women
Friendship
Me
" The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. "
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Gift
Vision
Been
" I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old. "
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Feeling
Really
Old
" The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism? "
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Bombs
Dropping
People
" 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. "
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Long
Long Time
Time
" I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose. "
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Stay
Always
Child
" A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet. "
Alice Walker
Soul
Government
Good
" I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it. "
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World
Rather
Than
" In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. "
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Garden
Mother
Own
" I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. "
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Butt
Jokes
People
" You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal. "
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See
Dreaming
Changes
" 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. "
Alice Walker
Father
Mind
Night
" Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors. "
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Family
Children
Women
" I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to. "
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Own
Way
People
" Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. "
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Good
Evil
Intrinsic
" The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' "
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Question
Child
Important
" Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. "
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English
Tea
Really
" 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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Medicine
Children
Day
" It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine. "
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Parents
Us
Hard