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" I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing. "
Alice Walker
Women
Whatever
Want
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" It is important to remember yourself. "
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" 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. "
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" I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. "
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" You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal. "
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" At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything. "
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" It's not possible to stop love. "
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" My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness. "
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" Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer. "
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" I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. "
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" We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. "
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" I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion. "
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" To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people. "
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" 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. "
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" And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. "
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" How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. "
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" 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. "
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" I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too. "
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" People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location. "
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" 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. "
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