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" I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on. "

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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

People

" People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything. "

" I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad. "

" I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens. "

" You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal. "

" It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing. "

" Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. "

" I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. "

" Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. "

" I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose. "

" I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Alice Walker

Change

Enjoy

" I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life. "

" The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism? "

" I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious. "

" I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America. "

" I think America has always been polarized. "

" What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. "

" No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. "

" I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again. "

" Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. "

Alice Walker

Sister

Comforting

" I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am. "

Alice Walker

Known

Felt

" Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. "

" My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean? "

" I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing. "

" The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print. "

" All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. "

" You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about. "

" I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.' "