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" I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious. "
Alice Walker
Curious
Bisexual
Just
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" In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. "
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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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Creation
" It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are. "
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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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" As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young. "
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Young
Best
" Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books. "
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" The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. "
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" I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors. "
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True
" I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am. "
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Felt
" My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean? "
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" 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.' "
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Women
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" The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass. "
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People
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" Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. "
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Life
I Believe
" In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. "
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Beautiful
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" Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. "
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Expect
Surprise
" On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it. "
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See
Me
" Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. "
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Observe
" 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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Four
Month
" Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also. "
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Love
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" I'm the most stubborn person I know. "
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Know
Most
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" I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast. "
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East Coast
Decent
Critic
" We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. "
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Our
Believe
Children
" I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to. "
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Own
Way
People
" We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise. "
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Us
" The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. "
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Black
World
" People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. "
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" I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve. "
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" This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy. "
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People
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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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Choice
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. "
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America
Time