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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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" 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

" It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care. "

" I think America has always been polarized. "

" I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly. "

" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "

" I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves. "

" The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. "

" David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X. "

" I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored. "

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

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

" Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52. "

" From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work. "

" 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 met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over. "

" I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces. "

" Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? "

" The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet. "

" I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks. "

" If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it. "

" My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family. "

" 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.' "

" What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore. "

" I'm the most stubborn person I know. "

" I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered. "

Alice Walker

Women

Friendship

" We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise. "

Alice Walker

Enemies

Who

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