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" I start each book when it's ready and never before. "
Alice Walker
Start
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Never
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" It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing. "
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" Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. "
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" Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer. "
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" I don't generally read reviews. "
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" It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine. "
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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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" My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. "
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" We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. "
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" What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore. "
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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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" What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. "
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" War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet. "
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" The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. "
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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. "
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" I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast. "
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" From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work. "
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" We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it. "
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