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" I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. "
Alice Walker
About
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Heart
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" 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. "
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" Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. "
Alice Walker
Way
You
Triumph
" I think America has always been polarized. "
Alice Walker
Think
Always
America
" 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. "
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Write
Will
" I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. "
Alice Walker
Love
World
People
" I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it? "
Alice Walker
War
Think
Support
" Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? "
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Who
People
Other
" 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
" We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. "
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Our
Believe
Children
" Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. "
Alice Walker
Writing
Violence
Me
" I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know. "
Alice Walker
Write
Never
Audience
" Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything. "
Alice Walker
Believe
Amazing
Amazing People
" It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. "
Alice Walker
Searching
Father
Knowing
" We should not look down on our first ancestors. "
Alice Walker
Look
Down
First
" I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it. "
Alice Walker
Right
I Am
Wrong
" Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it. "
Alice Walker
Good
Place
Beautiful
" We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid. "
Alice Walker
Children
Power
Feel
" The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. "
Alice Walker
Men
Black
World
" I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels. "
Alice Walker
Started
Myself
Feel
" All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience. "
Alice Walker
Must
Understanding
Experience
" Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. "
Alice Walker
Any
God
Me
" 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
Will
Fall
Free
" 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. "
Alice Walker
Black
Flower
Think
" 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. "
Alice Walker
Speak
Deserve
Responsibility
" Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. "
Alice Walker
English
Tea
Really
" Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. "
Alice Walker
Week
Rest
Observe
" 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. "
Alice Walker
Family
Children
Women
" In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid. "
Alice Walker
Mirror
Men
Work
" At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost. "
Alice Walker
Dancing
Art
Makeup
" 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. "
Alice Walker
Black
Words
Women