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" I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth. "
Alice Walker
Myself
Place
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" You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal. "
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" What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. "
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" I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part. "
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" 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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" My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. "
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" I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine. "
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" Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it. "
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" Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm the most stubborn person I know. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing. "
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" I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can't do that, once every two months or every four months. "
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" We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid. "
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" 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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" 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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