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" 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. "
Alice Walker
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" Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere. "
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" I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose. "
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" When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb. "
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" It is important to remember yourself. "
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" I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder. "
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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 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. "
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" I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part. "
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" I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. "
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" For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse. "
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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. "
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" You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul. "
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" Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft. "
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" How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. "
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" I start each book when it's ready and never before. "
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" I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing. "
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" 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. "
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" People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location. "
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" It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try. "
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