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" 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. "

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" One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe. "

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Circle

Conversation

" The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. "

" I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine. "

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

" I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder. "

" It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine. "

Alice Walker

Parents

Hard

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. "

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

" Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books. "

" I never talk about my next project. "

Alice Walker

Talk

About

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

" When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. "

" Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. "

" I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. "

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

" I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really? "

" We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal. "

Alice Walker

Equal

Existence

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

" If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs. "

" Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. "

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Any

God

" 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. "

" I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks. "

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

" 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. "